Janet P. Judge is a Partner with the Education & Sports Law Group, LLC. An active association member since 2004, Janet currently serves on the on the NACUA Board and the Committee on Programming for the Annual Conference. She has presented, moderated, and led group discussions at more than 25 NACUA events, is an instructor for NACUA’s Title IX Coordinators Training, and co-presented NACUA’s briefing on Title IX and Challenges to Sex-Based Scholarships.
Associate Vice President Marjory Fisher is Columbia University's Title IX Coordinator, responsible for monitoring the university's policies and procedures for resolving sexual and gender-based misconduct, harassment, and other complaints under Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in federally-funded educational institutions. In addition, Ms. Fisher provides guidance on investigations, oversees Deputy Title IX Coordinators at the University, and is responsible for training University staff and others on Title IX issues.
Ms. Fisher brings extensive legal and investigative experience to her post. She joined Columbia from T&M Protection Resources, where she served as Senior Managing Director of the Sexual Misconduct Consulting & Investigations Division. Ms. Fisher was formerly Bureau Chief of the Special Victims Bureau in the Queens District Attorney's Office for 22 years, and prior to that served for eight years as Assistant District Attorney in the Sex Crimes Bureau and supervising Trial Attorney in the Homicide Bureau of the Kings County (Brooklyn) District Attorney's Office.
In her capacity at T&M, Ms. Fisher conducted sensitive investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct as well as provided Title IX trainings for investigators, adjudicators, faculty, administrators, staff and students at a wide range of colleges, universities and K-12 private and public schools. She also provided sexual harassment and investigations training for various private businesses and non-profit institutions.
Ms. Fisher has been a St. John's University Law School Adjunct Professor, where she taught a course on Sexual Assault and Family Violence. She is the recipient of multiple awards for excellence in trial work and the pursuit of justice, including recognition from the Mt. Sinai Rape Crisis and Intervention Program and the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault.
She earned her juris doctor from George Washington University's National Law Center.