Alexandra Schimmer is Vice President and General Counsel for Denison University and Secretary of the Board of Trustees.  She previously served as the Deputy General Counsel for The Ohio State University, and before that, as the Solicitor General for the state of Ohio, where she led all of the state's major appeals, briefing and arguing dozens of cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeals, and the Ohio Supreme Court, and advising state agencies, officers, and Ohio's public colleges and universities on a broad range of legal issues. Schimmer is a member of NACUA's Board of Directors. Schimmer holds an A.B. from Princeton University, a J.D. from the Yale Law School, and was a Fulbright Fellow to England, where she earned an M.Phil. at Cambridge University.