Tracy Thomas
SCHOLAR OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGAL HISTORY
Tracy Thomas is a law professor and public scholar, nationally recognized for her work on constitutional law and legal history. Her research focuses on women and the law, with an interest in recovering women's stories. She is the director of the Center for Constitutional Law at the University of Akron School of Law. Her legal work has been cited by numerous courts of law including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second and D.C. Circuits, federal district courts in California, Florida, and Nebraska, and state supreme courts in Oregon, Washington, Georgia, Vermont, and Utah. Previously, she was a lawyer at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and a judicial clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Los Angeles.
Thomas is the author of two books, with two more in progress. Her book The First Woman Judge: The Life and Legacy of Florence Allen will be published by the University of California Press in September 2026.
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“Excellent new book. . . .
eminently readable yet deeply substantive”
—Paula A. Monopoli
Professor of Law
Director, Women, Leadership & Equality Program
University of Maryland
“Superb interdisciplinary
collection . . . . [with an] illuminating introduction”
—Amy Dru Stanley
Professor of History
University of Chicago
