Tiffany R. Reeves's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

📖 Summary

Deputy Executive Director and Chief Legal Officer @ • CTPF is the administrator of a $10.8 billion (FY 2014) defined benefit public employee retirement fund that provides retirement, survivor, disability, and certain health care benefits to teachers and employees of Chicago Public Schools and Chicago area charter schools • Responsible for nine direct reports, including Chief Benefits Officer, Director of Investments, Director of Member Services, Director of Human Resources, Director of Finance, Director of IT—Infrastructure, Director of IT—Development, and Assistant Counsel • Coordinate Fund operations and work with the Executive Director and Board of Trustees to establish operational priorities • Provide leadership and direction in the development of short and long range plans; gather, interpret, and prepare data for studies, reports and recommendations; coordinate activities among departments, as needed • Monitor the operation for compliance with regulations, internal controls and best practices in retirement system administration • Conduct research and planning; monitor industry trends and identify potential changes; analyze workload and recommend staffing assignments and adjustments • Build human capacity, ownership and responsibility by empowering staff, building team orientation, and developing organization capability • Team with the Executive Director to define a meaningful long-term direction of the organization by defining strategic direction and intent; defining goals and objectives by creating a shared vision • Responsible for managing all legal matters in role as Chief Legal Officer From April 2015 to Present (8 months) Chief Legal Officer @ • Responsible for all legal issues pertaining to the administration of the Fund—a governmental defined benefit plan covering approximately 63,000 active and retired educators • Serve as a member of executive leadership • Advise the Board of Trustees regarding fiduciary and governance issues • Responsible for review of a wide variety of investment matters, including negotiation and review of private equity, private market real estate, and public market investments • Advise on general business and legislative issues • Represent the Fund in administrative hearings and manage litigation • Review benefits administration and compliance issues, and implementation of domestic relations orders • Review open records/meetings issues and ensure compliance with Illinois law From August 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Greater Chicago AreaAssociate @ • Counsel and represent public pension and Taft-Hartley funds on various personnel, investment, and operations and compliance issues • Advise public fund trustees on a variety of fiduciary, governance, ethics, and open government issues • Counsel public pension fund clients regarding benefit administration issues, including power of attorney, guardianship, QILDRO, and death benefit issues • Negotiate and evaluate investment management agreements, including complex alternative investment fund agreements • Draft and negotiate professional services agreements, including actuarial services agreements and third party administrator agreements • Attend public fund board of trustees and subcommittee meetings • Represent labor organizations in collective bargaining and arbitration • Represent individual employees in various employment related matters, including FLSA, FMLA, IHRA, ADA, and Title VII issues From 2011 to August 2014 (3 years) Contract Attorney @ • Worked with senior trial attorneys to manage cases and develop litigation strategies • Worked on several class action lawsuits involving Title VII and ADA issues From September 2010 to August 2011 (1 year) Project Attorney/Litigation Consultant @ • Worked as project manager and e-discovery attorney From March 2007 to August 2010 (3 years 6 months) M.A., Sports Administration @ Northwestern University From 2008 to 2010 J.D., Law @ University of Oregon School of Law From 2004 to 2006 B.A., Spanish @ University of Oregon From 1998 to 2002 Tiffany R. Reeves is skilled in: Legal Research, Government, Legal Writing, Litigation, Mediation, Westlaw, Administrative Law, Civil Litigation, Employment Law, Arbitration