Tania Tetlow

Tania Tetlow, a former law professor and past president of Loyola University New Orleans who has deep ties to the Jesuits and New York, is the 33rd president of Fordham. She is the first layperson and first woman to lead the University in its 181-year history. Her tenure began on July 1, 2022.

Tetlow has served as president of Loyola New Orleans since August 2018. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1995, and her Bachelor of Arts in American studies from Tulane University, cum laude, in 1992. Prior to being named president of Loyola, she was senior vice president and chief of staff at Tulane University from 2015 to 2018. She also served at Tulane as associate provost for international affairs, the Felder-Fayard Professor of Law, and director of the university’s domestic violence clinic. From 2000 to 2005, she was a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana.