Latonia Haney Keith

Chair

Latonia Haney Keith currently serves on the executive leadership team of The College of Idaho as Chief Strategy Officer and Dean of Graduate Studies, overseeing the School of Graduate Studies, the Office of Institutional Ethics & Compliance, the Marketing & Communications Division and the Division of Strategic Initiatives.

Vice President Haney Keith joined The College from Concordia University School of Law where she served most recently as Interim Dean and Associate Dean of Academics. Vice President Haney Keith originally joined the faculty of Concordia Law as the Director of Clinical Education. In this role, she directed Concordia Law’s clinical education program, teaching law students the practice of law through the representation of disadvantaged and underserved populations in housing, criminal, and immigration matters.

Prior to joining Concordia Law, Vice President Haney Keith spent nearly seven years running a world-wide pro bono practice at a large law firm based in Chicago. After graduating from Harvard Law School, where she was a research assistant to Professor Laurence H. Tribe and Professor Charles Ogletree and an editor of and symposium co-chair for the Harvard Law Review, Vice President Haney Keith clerked for the Honorable Judith Ann Wilson Rogers on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

In March 2023, Vice President Haney Keith was confirmed by Mayor Lauren McLean as a Boise City Councilmember, representing District 3 through the remainder of the 2023 calendar year. In March 2020, she was confirmed by City Council as a Commissioner of the Capital City Development Corporation (CCDC), the redevelopment and urban renewal agency for Boise, Idaho, and currently serves as its Chair. She has served as a member of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service and the Executive Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law’s Committee on Pro Bono, on the Legal Advisory Council for the Fair Punishment Project and on the Local Rules Committee of the U.S. Courts of the District of Idaho and currently serves as a board member of City Club of Boise. Vice President Haney Keith also regularly conducts trainings on recognizing and reducing implicit biases and has published scholarship on the topic of bias, discrimination and harassment in the legal profession. Additionally, she enjoys engaging in research and dialogue centered on constitutional law, housing and homelessness and a variety of public policy issues.

Vice President Haney Keith was confirmed by the Boise City Council as a CCDC Commissioner on March 3, 2020, for a standard five-year term ending in March 2025, after being appointed by Mayor Lauren McLean. She was reappointed to our Board for a second five-year term ending in February 2030.