General Counsel
Jamie Lewis Keith
Vice President and General Counsel
Jamie Lewis Keith is Vice President and General Counsel of the University of Florida, a position she assumed in October 2006. In this position, Ms. Keith is responsible for all of the legal affairs of this large public research university and leads the university's General Counsel's Office*. Ms. Keith is also a member of the Board of the Council on Governmental Relations, which provides policy advice to research universities and academic medical centers on a broad range of issues affecting academic and hospital research.
From July 1999 until her appointment at the University of Florida, Ms. Keith was the Senior Counsel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, establishing and leading the Institute's first primary counsel's office and providing or overseeing legal services in a broad range of areas to MIT's President, Provost, other senior officers, board, and academic and administrative departments. At MIT, Ms. Keith was also Managing Director for Environmental Programs and Risk Management, a role in which she was responsible for comprehensive enterprise risk assessment and for overseeing MIT's environmental programs and environment, health and safety offices.
Prior to joining MIT, Ms. Keith was a junior partner at the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr LLP (now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP), and then in former Governor William Weld's Administration as the Assistant Commissioner and General Counsel of the Division of Capital Asset Management, a Massachusetts state agency.
Ms. Keith graduated with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences, and magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law, where she was an outside Article Editor on the Law Review. Ms. Keith clerked for the Honorable Bailey Aldrich on The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She was an art history major at Cornell, concentrating in Asian art history and Chinese Language.
*Ms. Keith is admitted to the Florida and Massachusetts Bars. The Associate Vice President & Deputy General Counsel oversees legal work of the office pending Ms. Keith's admission.