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Dr. Vincent is a former education and non-profit CEO, board chair, tenured professor, and Ohio Assistant Attorney General,—bringing a rare breadth of experience to every client relationship.

He has managed budgets of up to $100 million, served as a trusted advisor to institutional and nonprofit leaders, and helped shape national policy across civil rights matters, educational law, employment and labor law, corporate legal services, NIL & more.

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A Career Shaped by Principle & Purpose

Gregory J. Vincent’s Professional Experience

  • Current Leadership
  • Selected Academic & Executive
  • Legal Career
  • Civic Leadership
  • Education & Honors
  • Full Bio

CEO & Co-Founder, Vincent Strategies

2018-Present
Global consulting firm focused on inclusive excellence, NIL, strategic planning, compliance, community engagement, leadership development, and philanthropy.

Since 2018, Vincent Strategies has successfully assisted numerous clients to meet and exceed their strategic goals, including public and private educational institutions, research and policy institutes, membership organizations, public and private law firms, corporations, and nonprofits.

Owner, Gregory J. Vincent Law

2018-Present

Ohio civil rights, education, NIL, nonprofit, and employment law firm. Since 2018 Gregory Vincent Law has helped clients stay ahead of legal challenges in today’s evolving civil rights, education, and employment law. We have recently begun tackling challenges in the dynamic, rapidly changing NIL landscape.

CEO & Co-Founder, 360 NIL Group

2024-Present

Dynamic consulting and education firm at the forefront of the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) era, empowering college athletes, institutions, and NIL collectives. Founded by experienced leaders across law, education, sports management, branding, wellness, and financial services, 360 NIL empowers college athletes, institutions, and NIL collectives to thrive in this rapidly evolving higher education and legal landscape. 360

NIL combines strategic expertise with a comprehensive approach, ensuring our clients are compliant, competitive.

Selected Experience

President, Talladega College

2022-2024

Led enrollment of two of the most academically talented classes in school history. Reinstated the Honors Program, introduced award-winning eSports, Battle of the Brains, and Hackathon teams. Under his leadership, Talladega received the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference All Sports Thomas Howell Cup for 2023-2024. Secured record donor contributions, including two gifts exceeding $1 million.

Professor of Educational Policy and Law & Executive Director, Education and Civil Rights Initiative, University of Kentucky

2020-2022

Inaugural director who hosted national conferences on civil rights and education law, taught landmark NIL case Alston v. NCAA, and led comprehensive equity audits for Kentucky public school districts.

48th Grand Sire Archon (CEO and Chairman) Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity Inc.

2018-2020

Vice President & W.K. Kellogg Professor, University of Texas-Austin

2005-2017

Managed $50 million budget and 40 units, including the first Texas university-sponsored public charter school system and the statewide University Interscholastic League. Directed hiring of over 60 faculty members through the Thematic Faculty Hire Initiative. Improved first-generation student retention rate to 93% through the Longhorn Center for Academic Excellence.

Served as spokesperson for Fisher v. University of Texas and chaired the Equity and Student-Athlete Well-being Committee as part of a year-long campus-wide study of UT Men’s and Women’s Athletics as part of the Division 1 NCAA certification

Vice Provost, Louisiana State University

1999-2004

Managed $69 million budget, overseeing 230 full-time and 200 part-time employees. Helped recruit student-athletes contributing to LSU’s 2004 BCS National Football Championship.

Assistant Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, Lecturer of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1995-1999

Conducted high-profile investigations and led comprehensive Human Resources and diversity studies. Established the Leadership Institute, which continues today.

Ohio Assistant Attorney General

1988-1991
Successfully argued precedent-setting civil rights cases before the Ohio Supreme Court, including Little Forest Medical Center v. The Civil Rights Commission and State, ex Rel Natalina v. Civil Rights Commission. Secured over $1 million in settlements and judgments, winning all appeals cases in Ohio courts.

Cleveland Regional Director & Legal and Regional Affairs Director

1991-1994
Ohio Civil Rights Commission – Led team in successfully investigating over 4,000 civil rights cases, helping Ohio state law achieve substantial equivalence to federal law.

Licenses & Bar Memberships

  • Ohio
  • West Virginia
  • Ohio State Bar Association
  • West Virginia State Bar Association

Primary Legal Practice Areas

All Services & Sectors

Civic Leadership & Service

  • Board Chair Experience – Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, St. James’ Episcopal Church Vestry, Communities in Schools of Central Texas, Austin Area Urban League
  • Life Member – Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
  • Chair, Commission on Racial Justice – Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity (2016-2020)
  • Chair, Committee on Educational Activities (2025-Present)

Recognition & Impact

Dr. Vincent has received over 100 awards for professional and community service, with proclamations from the cities of Austin, Texas; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Toledo, Ohio; Louisville, Kentucky; and Detroit, Michigan. As a dedicated philanthropist, he has donated over $1 million to organizations promoting athletics, educational excellence, civil rights, and healthy communities.

A prolific speaker and thought leader, Dr. Vincent has presented over 500 continuing legal education seminars, keynote addresses, and panel discussions across 35 states and internationally in Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean, and Europe.

Education & Credentials

Doctor of Education – University of Pennsylvania
Juris Doctor – The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Bachelor of Arts
 – Hobart and William Smith Colleges

  • Bar Admissions: Ohio and West Virginia
  • Professional Memberships: Ohio State Bar Association, West Virginia State Bar Association
  • Certifications: Certified civil rights mediator (10 years)

Achievements & Honors

  • Former Ohio Assistant Attorney General
  • Former Vice President, W.K. Kellogg Professor & Professor of Law – University of Texas at Austin
  • Former Professor of Educational Policy & Law and Executive Director – University of Kentucky
  • Former Education and Non-Profit CEO – Talladega College, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Hobart, and William Smith Colleges
  • 48th Grand Sire Archon (CEO and Chairman) – Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity Inc. (2018-2020)
  • 2023 HBCU Pre-Law Hall of Fame Inductee
  • 2019 Kentucky Colonel – Highest title of honor bestowed by the Governor of Kentucky
  • 2016 Educator of the Year – University of Pennsylvania
  • 2012 Service Award & 2022 Inclusive Excellence Award – The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
  • 2017 Professor of the Year – University of Texas Law School Thurgood Marshall Legal Society
  • University Spokesperson – United States Supreme Court Case Fisher v. University of Texas (2016)
  • 2023 Alumnus Citation – Hobart College

Achievments

Dr. Vincent’s Biography

Dr. Gregory J. Vincent (Bronx High School of Science, B.A. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, J.D. The Ohio State University, Ed.D. University of Pennsylvania) has served for over three decades as an award-winning education and nonprofit CEO, board chair, executive officer, tenured professor, and a trial and appellate litigator. He has successfully argued precedent-setting cases before the Ohio Supreme Court, managed budgets of up to $100 million for several national higher educational institutions and raised over $50 million in external funding. A dedicated philanthropist, Vincent has donated over a million dollars to several impactful organizations promoting athletics, educational excellence, civil rights, and healthy communities. He authored several publications and has presented over 500 continuing legal education seminars, keynote addresses, and panel discussions on civil liberties, athletics, employment, and education law issues in 35 states and countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean, and Europe. Vincent competed as a collegiate student-athlete, bringing substantial higher education, K-12, executive, and legal experience to the ever-evolving collegiate athletics and Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) Landscape. 

Vincent is CEO and co-founder of Vincent Strategies, a global consulting firm focused on inclusive excellence, NIL, strategic planning, compliance, community engagement, leadership development, and philanthropy. He also owns Gregory Vincent Law LLC, an Ohio civil rights, education, NIL, Non-Profit, and employment law firm. Since 2018, Vincent Strategies and Gregory Vincent Law have successfully assisted several clients to meet and exceed their strategic goals, including public and private educational institutions, research and policy institutes, membership organizations, public and private law firms, corporations, and nonprofits. 

Since 2024, Vincent has also served as CEO and co-founder of the 360 NIL Group, a subsidiary of Vincent Strategies. The 360 NIL Group LLC is a dynamic consulting and education firm at the forefront of the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) era. Founded by experienced leaders across law, education, sports management, branding, wellness, and financial services, 360 NIL empowers college athletes, institutions, and NIL collectives to thrive in this rapidly evolving higher education and legal landscape. 360 NIL combines strategic expertise with a holistic approach, ensuring our clients are compliant, competitive, and positioned for sustainable, long-term success.

Dr. Vincent served as the 21st President of Talladega College from 2022-2024. In a challenging higher education environment, he led a team that enrolled two of the most academically talented classes in school history while continuing to serve as a national leader in social mobility. He also improved co-curricular offerings by reinstating the Honors Program, introducing the award-winning eSports, Battle of the Brains, and Hackathon teams, and rightsizing the Top Ten HBCU Band. The Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (HBCU Conference) awarded Talladega its prestigious All Sports Thomas Howell Cup for the 2023-2024 season. He also led the efforts to forge a strategic partnership with the Smithsonian American Art Museum and three key academic programs completed accreditation processes. A record number of donors contributed to Talladega from 2022 to 2024, including two gifts of over 1 million dollars. 

From 2020-2022, Vincent served nearly three years as an educational policy and law professor and the inaugural Executive Director of the Education and Civil Rights Initiative at the University of Kentucky. During his tenure, he hosted two national conferences and several webinars on civil rights and education law, taught K-12 and higher education law classes, including Alston v. NCAA, the Landmark US Supreme Court NIL case, and led a team that completed a comprehensive equity audit for a Kentucky public school district and report.

For 12 years, Vincent served as Vice President, W.K. Kellogg Professor, and Professor of Law at the University of Texas-Austin (UT). His portfolio was comprised of a $50 million budget and 40 units, including the first Texas university-sponsored public charter school system, the statewide University Interscholastic League, created by The University of Texas at Austin in 1910 and is the largest inter-school organization of its kind in the world, the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, the Office of Institutional Equity, five outreach centers across the state a community engagement center in East Austin, and Neighborhood Longhorns, the community engagement initiative for UT Athletics. As director of the Thematic Faculty Hire Initiative, he partnered with colleges, schools, and departments to hire over 60 faculty members in underrepresented academic areas. The Longhorn Center for Academic Excellence helped improve first-generation and underrepresented students’ first-year retention rate to 93%. Read the announcement and ten-year report. Vincent chaired the Equity and Student-Athlete Well-being Committee as part of a year-long campus-wide study of UT Men’s and Women’s Athletics as part of the Division 1 NCAA certification. He chaired the UT Chief Financial Officer search, where the incumbent managed a $2.87 Billion budget.

Vincent led the effort for the University to achieve the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement and the Diversity Champion Award from Insight Magazine. He taught K-12 and higher education law courses and was recognized as Professor of the Year by the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society. Vincent served as university spokesperson and helped develop the legal strategy for the United Supreme Court case Fisher v. University of Texas.

During the 11 years before becoming Vice President and Professor at the University of Texas-Austin, Vincent held increasingly more responsible roles at three public flagship universities. He served as executive officer, vice provost, and law professor at Louisiana State University (LSU) and the University of Oregon, teaching education and employment law classes. As Vice Provost at both universities, he served on the President’s Cabinet and Dean’s Council. At LSU, Vincent was Vice Provost of Academic Affairs and Campus Diversity and managed a nearly $69 million budget. At LSU, he oversaw 230 full-time and 200 part-time employees and the activities of the Division of Continuing Education, Division of International Programs, the Academic Center for Student-Athletes, Fire and Emergency Training Institute, Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Women’s Center. He also served on the Athletics Council and chaired the Sports Agent Panel. Vincent also helped recruit several student-athletes, which helped LSU win several conference and national championships, including the 2004 BCS National Football Championship. 

Vincent served as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, conducting all high-profile investigations. As a law lecturer, he taught and helped overhaul the labor and employment law curriculum. Vincent also led a ten-month study of Human Resources and diversity issues as part of the university’s accreditation project. He established the Leadership Institute, which was held for two decades.

Before entering academia, Vincent joined the Ohio Attorney General’s Office as an assistant attorney general. In that position, he successfully argued precedent-setting civil rights cases before the Supreme Court of Ohio that set the standard for proving a Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ) in Ohio and established the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the Commission. These cases included Little Forest Medical Center v. The Civil Rights Commission and State, ex Rel Natalina v. Civil Rights Commission. He secured over a million dollars in settlements and judgments for complainants and won all appeals cases in Ohio courts. Vincent was promoted to Cleveland Regional Director, and then Legal and Regional Affairs Director for the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, where he and his team successfully investigated over 4000 civil rights investigations and helped Ohio state law become substantially equivalent to federal law. Later, as vice president at Bank One, a subsidiary of a Fortune 50 Company, he successfully represented the Bank before several state and federal agencies.

Vincent, the son of first-generation Americans and college graduates, attended New York City public schools and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, where he was recognized as a Regents Scholar and named a notable Alumnus. He earned a full academic scholarship to Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where he competed on the basketball, cross country, and track teams and served as a resident advisor and student government representative. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in History and Economics and was presented the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award at graduation. Vincent was also awarded a 2023 alumnus citation and recognized as a notable alumnus. Vincent served as president at his alma mater, where he managed a budget of $100 million and developed, with Board approval, the Path Forward Agenda, which strengthened co-curricular opportunities for students, successfully added six NCAA Athletic teams, reduced the budget deficit, and enrolled one of the largest classes in school history. He previously served on the HWS board of trustees.

Vincent received his Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where he was awarded a full scholarship and was recognized as a notable alumnus. He received the 2012 Service Award and the 2022 Inclusive Excellence Award and, since 2008, has served on the National Advisory Council. He also received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named the 2016 Educator of the Year.

Vincent was unanimously elected as the 48th Grand Sire Archon (CEO and Chairman 2018-2020) of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity Inc., founded in 1904 as the first African American Greek letter organization and now comprised of 144 member boules across the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Caribbean. See the UNCF article. He is a life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., founded in 1906 at Cornell University as the first intercollegiate African American Fraternity. From 2016 to 2020, he served as chair of the fraternity’s Commission on Racial Justice and is currently chair of the Educational Activities Committee. He has chaired several boards, including the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, St. James’ Episcopal Church Vestry, Communities in Schools of Central Texas, and the Austin Area Urban League.

Vincent has received over 100 awards for his professional and community service. The Cities of Austin, Texas; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Toledo, Ohio; Louisville, Kentucky; and Detroit, Michigan, awarded him proclamations. In 2023, Vincent was inducted into the HBCU Pre-Law Hall of Fame for his sustained commitment to increasing access to law school for underrepresented students. In 2019, he was named a Kentucky Colonel, the highest title of honor bestowed by the Governor of Kentucky.

SUCCESS

NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS

Civil Rights

Ohio Supreme Court

As Ohio Assistant Attorney successfully argued Little Forest Medical Center v. The Civil Rights Commission 61 Ohio St.3d 607 (1991) before the Ohio Supreme Court

Civil Rights

Civil Rights, Ohio Supreme Court

Successfully argued State, ex Rel Natalina v. Civil Rights Commission 55 Ohio St. 3d 98 (1990) before Ohio Supreme Court.

Higher Education

University of TX

Vice President, W.K. Kellogg Professor and Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin, (2005-2017) where portfolio included the University Interscholastic League, (More) (UIL), the largest inter-school organization of its kind in the world and the University of Texas-University Charter School (UT-UCS) District with 23 campuses

Education

University of Kentucky

Professor of Educational Policy and Law, Executive Director, Education and Civil Rights Initiative, University of Kentucky 2020-2022

Education

Talladega College, Hobart, and William Smith Colleges, Former University President

Employment

Episcopal Diocese of Texas

Board Chair, the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, Communities in Schools of Central Texas, and Austin Area Urban League

AWARDS

FEATURED AWARDS AND HONORS

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Educator of the Year

University of Pennsylvania (2016)

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Professor of the Year

University of Texas College of Law, Thurgood Marshall Society (2017)

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Pre-Law Hall of Fame

National Historically Black Colleges and Universities

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Service Award

The Ohio State University Moritz College (2012)

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Inclusive Excellence Award

The Ohio State University Moritz College (2022)

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Law School National Council

The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Member (2012-Present)

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Alumnus Citation

Hobart College (2023)

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Dr. Gregory J. Vincent Day

June 13, 2017, in recognition of civil contributions by Mayor Steve Adler of Austin, TX

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