Tanisha Cole Edmonds

Tanisha Cole Edmonds is the first Chief Diversity Officer at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Ms. Edmonds is a member of the CFTC’s Executive Leadership Team and leads the CFTC’s efforts to integrate and promote diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility across all levels of the CFTC’s workforce and in its talent and business operations. She oversees the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion.

Prior to joining the CFTC, Ms. Edmonds served most recently as a senior executive at the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) as the Deputy Director for the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Civil Rights and as DOI’s Deputy Chief Diversity Officer. Ms. Edmonds also served as a Labor and Employment Law Attorney for the U.S. Postal Service and as a Technical Advisor for the U.S. Secret Service.

Ms. Edmonds began her career as an attorney at Passman & Kaplan, P.C., a boutique employment law firm in Washington, D.C. Ms. Edmonds was a contributing author to Passman & Kaplan’s 1st edition of the Federal Employees Legal Survival Guide. Ms. Edmonds holds a B.A. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a J.D. from Washington University’s School of Law.  She is a member of both the Maryland and Washington, D.C. bars.