Jeremy Travis

Jeremy Travis (born July 31, 1948) became the fourth president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), on August 16, 2004. On October 25, 2016, Travis announced that he will step down from his position as president in August 2017. He will be joining the Laura and John Arnold Foundation as Senior Vice President of Criminal Justice.

Travis received his B.A., cum laude, in American Studies from Yale College in 1970, and was the recipient of the C. Douglas Green Memorial Prize in History and the Saybrook Fellows Prize. He received his M.P.A. from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service in 1977, and his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1982. He was elected to the Order of the Coif, and was a member of the New York University Law Review. He was also the recipient of the John Norton Pomeroy Prize for academic achievement and the Arthur Garfield Hays Fellowship in Civil Liberties.

Travis began his career working as a legal services assistant for the Legal Aid Society (1971-73). He worked for the Vera Institute of Justice (1973-77), where he managed demonstration programs on bail reform and victim-witness assistance, and directed the New York City Criminal Justice Agency (1977-79).

Early in his career, Travis served as law clerk to then-U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1982-83) and was the Marden and Marshall Fellow in Criminal Law at New York University School of Law (1983-84). He was appointed Special Counsel to the New York City Police Commissioner (1984-86), where he developed a new recruitment program, the Police Cadet Corps, to attract more college-educated and racially diverse candidates as police officers.

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