Tracy Richelle High

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Tracy Richelle  High 
Tracy Richelle High
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP - New York
New YorkNY

Tracy Richelle High is a partner in S&C’s Litigation Group, a co-Head of the Firm’s Labor and Employment Law Group and a member of the Criminal Defense and Investigations practice. Ms. High’s practice focuses on representing financial institutions and other corporations in complex civil litigation, arbitration and mediation proceedings, corporate internal investigations, and labor and employment matters. Ms. High is a member of Law360’s Employment Discrimination Editorial Board.

She has also represented clients before a wide variety of regulatory and prosecutorial agencies, both at the state and federal levels, as well as Congressional committees and independent examiners appointed by court order.

Internally, Ms. High serves as co-chair of the Diversity Committee and is one of S&C’s hiring partners. Externally, Ms. High is the Chairwoman of the board of directors of the YWCA-NYC, a Vice Chairwoman of the Legal Aid Society, a board member of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and on the Executive Committee as well as co-chair of the Contracts Committee of the NYIAC. She also serves on the Steering Committee of the Kate Stoneman Project, is a Trustee of the Harvard Law School Association, New York City, and is a member of the Association of Black Women Attorneys and Metropolitan Black Bar Association. Ms. High is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Labor and Employment Law at the New York University School of Law and a member of the Council of Legal Advisors to Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Rankings and Recognitions

  • Named to National Law Journal’s list of Employment & Discrimination Trailblazers (2023)
  • Named to Lawyer of Color’s Inaugural Wonderful Women list (2023)
  • Profiled in PoliticsNY Power Women list (2022)
  • Chambers USA: Labor & Employment (2022-2023)
  • Named Metropolitan Black Bar Association Private Practitioner of the Year (2022)
  • Named to Profiles in Diversity Journal’s Black Leaders Worth Watching (2022)
  • Named a “Labor & Employment Star (Northeast)” by Benchmark Litigation (2021-2024)
  • Named to Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Expert Guide for Litigation (2021, 2022)
  • Named to Lawdragon’s 500 Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers (2020-2024)
  • Named to the Lawyers of Color's Inaugural Nation’s Best List (2019)
  • Recipient of the Association of Black Women Attorneys Professional Achievement Award (2019)
  • Named to The National Black Lawyers Top 100 (2018-2024)
  • 2017 City & State Responsible 100 Awardee
  • New York Super Lawyers (2013-2020)
  • Profiled by Profiles in Diversity Journal in its 2016 Diversity Leaders issue
  • Profiled in Savoy Magazine‎’s 2015 list of Most Influential Black Lawyers
  • Named 2015 Diversity Trailblazer by the New York State Bar Association (2015)

Credentials

Education

  • Harvard Law School, J.D., 1999
  • Yale University, B.A., 1996

Bar Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • New York


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