Suzanne B. Goldberg is the Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She is one of the country’s foremost experts on gender and sexuality law and a leading advocate and attorney for the LGBTQ+ community. She co-founded Columbia Law School’s Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and established Columbia Law School’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic when she joined the faculty in 2006. From April 2024 to January 2025, Goldberg served in the U.S. Department of State as senior advisor to the under secretary for civilian security, democracy, and human rights. From 2023 to 2024, she served as senior advisor and legal expert to the special envoy to advance the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons at the U.S. Department of State. She began her federal service in January 2021 as deputy assistant secretary for strategic operations and outreach in the Office for Civil Rights (serving as acting assistant secretary) at the U.S. Department of Education.

An award-winning teacher, Goldberg has received Columbia Law School’s Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching and has been named the Public Interest Faculty of the Year. From 2015 to 2021, she served as Columbia University’s inaugural executive vice president for university life. In this role, she created and led a university-wide office that addresses intellectual life, community citizenship, and student life issues, through projects that include the Community Citizenship Initiative for all Columbia students, the Community Citizenship events series, the university-wide Student Well-Being Survey, and working groups on such issues as inclusive public safety. Goldberg also oversaw Columbia’s Title IX implementation for students and worked to broaden and reinforce the university’s commitment to respect, inclusion, and ethical leadership across Columbia’s campuses.