- jennifer.levi@duke.edu
- Assistant: Jyren Dillard
Professor Jennifer Levi is a nationally recognized expert on transgender legal issues. Levi currently serves as the Senior Director of Transgender and Queer Rights at GLAD and works on state legislative and policy reform efforts in addition to direct client representation. Levi led the legal challenge to the transgender military ban in both Doe v. Trump and Stockman v. Trump. Levi has also been a leader in working on harm reduction for incarcerated transgender people. Levi was co-counsel in two landmark marriage equality cases and has led a number of key family law cases establishing important protections for families headed by LGBTQ parents.
Levi is a law professor at Western New England University, where she has taught a variety courses including Family Law, Gender and the Law, and Constitutional Law. Professor Levi is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and a former law clerk to the Honorable Judge Michael Boudin at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
