Toni Cross

She has represented white collar clients in highly regulated industries – including technology, health care, financial services, and food manufacturing – facing False Claims Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and securities and commodities investigations. Toni uses her proficiency in Russian, Spanish, and French to conduct complex client analyses in domestic and international matters and to collaborate with cross-border teams on fact discovery. She has drafted government presentations, prepared witnesses for depositions and interviews, and responded to subpoenas and civil investigative demands.

Toni leverages her language skills to help pro bono clients seeking asylum, humanitarian parole, green cards, work authorizations, and restraining orders. She advocates for disability rights and has represented Deaf and blind incarcerated individuals and brought litigation against a housing provider for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

At Vanderbilt Law School, Toni was the Black Law Students Association President, a Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership Fellow, and Law Students for Social Justice Club Disability Chair. She received her BA from Middlebury College and completed an MA in International Security at Georgetown University where she received a Director’s Citizenship Award and served on the student council.

Toni has also interned for the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, Disability Law United (formerly the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center), Disability Rights Tennessee, the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, the Democratic National Committee, National Security Action, and the U.S. House of Representatives.