Toni Cross

Her experience includes representing clients confronting challenges stemming from the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, False Claims Act, and various agency investigations. She uses her world language skills to perform complex client analysis for domestic and international cases and works with cross-border teams to facilitate fact discovery.

Toni frequently leverages her language skills to help pro bono clients seeking asylum, humanitarian parole, green cards, work authorizations, and restraining orders. Toni is proud to be a champion of disability rights who has advocated for Deaf and blind incarcerated people and sued a housing provider for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.

While attending Vanderbilt Law School, Toni served as President of the Black Law Students Association, Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership Fellow, and Disability Chair for the Law Students for Social Justice Club. Toni received her BA from Middlebury College in Vermont and is believed to be the first student in Middlebury’s history to become proficient enough in Russian and Arabic to be allowed to study abroad in Russia and Morocco. She completed an MA in International Security from Georgetown University where she received a Director’s Citizenship Award and served on the student council.

Toni has worked as an intern for the ACLU of Tennessee, Disability Law United (formerly the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center), Disability Rights Tennessee, the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), the DNC, National Security Action, and the US House of Representatives. Within Hogan Lovells, Toni serves as a member of the Global Ability and Inclusion Network steering committee and the Allergy and Dietary Restrictions working group.