Thomas S. Leatherbury, JE ’76, YLS ’79, is a partner in the Dallas office of global law firm Vinson & Elkins. He is co-head of the firm’s appellate practice group and chair of talent management and has handled a wide variety of litigation in state and federal court and before administrative agencies. Tom has served in the leadership of a number of law-related organizations, including the National Association of Law Placement Foundation, the ABA’s Forum Committee on Communications Law, the Media Law Resource Center, and the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, and of a number of non-profit organizations, including Greenhill School and Business Council for the Arts.
Tom has spent a great deal of time volunteering for Yale and is the immediate past-Chair of the Yale Alumni Fund Board. He and his wife, lawyer Patricia Villareal, have two sons who were graduated from Yale College (Branford), Sean in ’06 and Colin in ’09. Sean then received his M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from the University of Oxford and is an assistant professor of History of Art at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is married to Steve Welsh, who is studying for his Ph.D. at Columbia University and working in educational technology at the University of Michigan. Colin works in the video product group at Twitter in San Francisco.
Tom would be pleased to visit with students who are considering law school.