Tracy Thompson

Executive Director

Tracy L. Thompson has served as the Executive Director of NELLCO since 2001. In that capacity Tracy negotiates with many legal information providers and other resource vendors on behalf of NELLCO’s 120+ member law libraries.

Tracy has a long record of service to the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), where she has served in numerous capacities through the years, including most recently as a member of the Annual Meeting Program Committee for 2016, past Chair of the Copyright Committee, and the Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV). Tracy serves on the Oxford University Press Library Advisory Committee, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Collaborative Leadership (ACL), active with the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) and the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and a long-time member of the American Library Association (ALA).

Prior to joining NELLCO Tracy served as International Reference Librarian for the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School. She holds a B.A. from the University of South Florida (’94) and a J.D. from Yale Law School (’97). She is also a proud Navy veteran and mother of three fine young men.