Adolpho birch nfl biography

Biography.
Adolpho Birch serves as Senior Vice President of Labor Policy & League Affairs for the National Football League, which is headquartered in New York, New York.
Adolpho Birch III '91 has joined the Tennessee Titans as chief legal officer and senior vice president of business affairs.

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Lasting and Meaningful Change: NFL executive Adolpho A. Birch III, JD’91, discusses diversity on campus and athlete activism

Adolpho Birch’s decision to move back to his hometown of Nashville this summer was advantageous for the community in more ways than one. For the Tennessee Titans, it meant one of the National Football League’s more seasoned executives, who had spent two decades in the league’s New York headquarters, would be joining the front office as the new chief legal officer and senior vice president of business affairs. For Vanderbilt, it meant even more access to a law school alumnus and Board of Trust member with valuable insight into issues of diversity and inclusion, just as a nationwide push for more racial justice was underway—a cause that no doubt would have resonated with Birch’s late father, A.A. Birch Jr., the first African American chief justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and late mother, Dr. Janet W. Birch, a longtime professor at Meharry Medical College and community activist.

In July, Birch was named chair of a new Board of Trust ad hoc commit

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Adolpho Birch III ’91 joins Tennessee Titans as chief legal officer

Adolpho Birch III ’91 has joined the Tennessee Titans as chief legal officer and senior vice president of business affairs. Birch previously spent 24 years working for the National Football League, most recently as senior vice president of labor policy and league affairs.

His appointment was announced June 25 by the Titans organization.

He joined the NFL’s legal staff in 1997 to focus on the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, including such issues as player and club contract and injury grievances, benefits matters and salary cap disputes. As the NFL’s senior vice president of labor policy and league affairs, he oversaw the development, administration and enforcement of the league’s critical policies on substance abuse, performance-enhancing drugs, gambling and criminal misconduct. During his tenure at the NFL, he worked with federal, state and local officials on key league issues such as youth concussion laws, the league’s tax status and the FCC’s blackout

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Presidential candidate: The Titans should consider Adolpho Birch

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A potentially strong candidate to run the Tennessee Titans as the president and CEO of the team works in New York City.

But Adolpho Birch, the NFL's senior vice president of labor policy and government affairs, grew up in Music City and attended Vanderbilt Law School.

In his current role, the league says Birch "oversees the development, administration and enforcement of the league’s critical policies respecting the integrity of the game, including those on substances of abuse, performance-enhancing drugs, gambling and criminal misconduct."

That is hardly the same as running a team. But Birch is connected in league circles, he knows Nashville and he’s smart. Those are all qualities that suggest to me he could be effective at the top of the Titans' organizational chart if he were interested and the team courted him.

The selection will ultimately be made by the interim head of the Titans, Steve Underwood, and Bud Adams’ family, which owns the team.

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