Prior to joining the Suffolk community in November 2008, Janice C. Griffith taught law at Georgia State University College of Law and served as dean from 1996-2004. As chief executive officer, she led the College’s long-range planning, curricular, development and fund-raising initiatives; and forged stronger relations with alumni and the greater Atlanta legal and business community.  Previously, she was a professor of law at Quinnipiac University.

Before entering academia, Vice President Griffith served as New York City’s chief of the Fiscal and Securities Division in the Office of the Corporation Counsel, and as general counsel and assistant administrator for the Housing and Development Administration. She was an associate with the Wall Street law firm of Hawkins, Delafield, and Wood before assuming these municipal posts.

Vice President Griffith has published articles on such academic issues as master campus planning, technology as a pedagogical tool, and transitioning between administrative and faculty positions. Nationally recognized as a scholar of state and local government law, she has also authored articles on federalism, public finance, land use, home rule, green space preservation, and regional governance. She is a co-author of the case book State and Local Government in a Federal System.

She was a 2009-2010 class member of the American Council on Education’s (ACE) Institute for New Chief Academic Officers, and was an ACE fellow at Ohio State University and a visiting scholar at Yale Law School. Vice President Griffith has chaired many professional organizations, including state and local government law sections of the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools.

She received an AB from Colby College and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School.