Tricia directs the Foundation Fellowship for the Morehead Honors College and is a senior lecturer of legal studies in the Terry College of Business. Before moving to the Honors College in fall 2025, she served as director of the Terry College’s Legal Studies Certificate Program.

Prior to arriving at the Terry College in 2015, Tricia worked in several positions in the UGA School of Law, starting in 2008. Previously, Tricia practiced law in Atlanta for five years and was the assistant director of student activities and campus programs at The Ohio State University for two years. She also served as a judicial clerk for Justice Deborah L. Cook of the Supreme Court of Ohio, Judge Mark P. Painter of the Ohio 1st District Court of Appeals, and Judge Michael L. Close of the Ohio 10th District Court of Appeals.

She earned her bachelor’s degree from Purdue University with an honors curriculum designation in pre-medical studies and psychology and her Juris Doctor from the University of Cincinnati, where she was the executive editor of the University of Cincinnati Law Review.