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Robin Harris
Robin Harris became The Council of Ivy League Presidents' second
full-time Executive Director on July 1, 2009, replacing Jeffrey H.
Orleans, who retired from the position after 25 years.
Harris came to the Ivy League Office after seven years at Ice
Miller, LLP, based in Indianapolis. At Ice Miller, she served as
senior counsel and co-chair for Ice Miller's Collegiate Sports
Practice and worked with the firm’s college and university
clients on variety of matters related to athletics.
Prior to Ice Miller, Harris worked nine years in increasingly
responsible roles in the National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA), ending her tenure at the NCAA national office as associate
chief of staff for Division I. In that role, she provided advice
and guidance to the NCAA president, Executive Committee, Division I
Board of Directors, Division I Management Council and other
committees in nearly all athletic governance areas, including
academic standards, amateurism, championship policies, diversity,
gender equity and Title IX, legislative proposals, membership
requirements, strategic planning, student-athlete welfare and
studies regarding basketball and football concerns. From 1993-1998,
she was the NCAA’s director for the Committee on
Infractions.
For the 2012-13 academic year, Harris is the president of National Association of
Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA), where she
previously served as legal advisor to the organization's Board of
Directors, and is on the Board of Governors of the Naismith
Basketball Hall of Fame, serving as one of two NCAA
representatives. She recently completed a four-year term as a
member of the NCAA Division I Leadership Council, an advisory body to the Division I Board of
Directors.
Harris is or has been a member of numerous other professional
associations, including the National Association of Collegiate
Directors of Athletics (NACDA), National Association of College and
University Attorneys (NACUA) and National Association for Athletics
Compliance (NAAC).
She is the author of several articles on issues related to intercollegiate athletics and has made presentations at numerous NCAA, NACUA and Division I conferences and seminars.
Harris is a graduate of the Duke University School of Law, where she served as editor of the Duke Law Journal. She also received a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Duke.
She is married to Max Harris, a native of Manhattan, Kan. The
couple has two children, twin daughters Alexandra and Vanessa.
