Trudy Vincent
Associate Vice President for Federal Relations
Trudy leads the Washington, D.C.-based Office of Federal Relations and represents the University in policy discussions that bear on key University activities, including research funding, student aid, and health care. She also supports faculty and students who engage in policy matters.
Prior to joining the University of Chicago in February 2013, Trudy spent 26 years on Capitol Hill, working for three U.S. Senators: Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, and most recently, Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico. She began her career working on education and health care issues before becoming Sen. Bingaman’s chief of staff.
Trudy graduated from Duke University and received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Maryland. She completed a one-year pre-doctoral fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine and was also a fellow at the Yale Bush Center on Child Development and Social Policy. She also served as a Congressional Science Fellow, which began her work on Capitol Hill in 1986.