The Honorable Alithea Z. Sullivan (Austin, Texas)
Regent Alithea Z. Sullivan was appointed to the Texas Southern University (TSU) Board of Regents by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in April of 2025.
As a partner at Stone Hilton PLLC, Regent Sullivan focuses on high stakes business litigation in state and federal courts. For nearly two decades, she had represented publicly traded companies at white-shoe and boutique law firms in Austin and in Washington, D.C.
Regent Sullivan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Germanic Languages and Literature from Harvard College and did fellowship coursework at Humboldt Universität in Berlin. She then earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law school, where she served as Forum Editor for the Harvard Law Review and was a member of the Harvard Black Law Student Association.
Regent Sullivan lives with her husband, Justice James P. Sullivan of the Texas Supreme Court, and their son.