Vice President and General Counsel

Alana Kyriakakis has served as the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s (UMB) labor and employment attorney since 2014 and was appointed acting vice president and general counsel in 2022. In addition to her administrative leadership role, Kyriakakis advises on all aspects of faculty and staff personnel matters across UMB’s six professional schools, the Graduate School, and central administration. She regularly provides training and education to leaders and professional organizations, and she has provided guest lectures at UMB’s Francis King Carey School of Law on role of in-house employment lawyers.

Before joining UMB, Kyriakakis practiced law for 10 years in Georgia, where she began her career as an employment law litigator in private practice and a special assistant attorney general representing public entities and higher education institutions in complex discrimination and employment litigation. After leaving private practice, she began her career as a university attorney working for institutions in the University System of Georgia. Her experience included representation of the state’s designated health sciences university and its only public medical school and as general counsel for a small undergraduate university.

Kyriakakis received a bachelor’s degree in communication from the University of Oklahoma in 1997 with a minor in classical Greek. She earned her JD degree cum laude in 2004 from the University of South Carolina, where she served on the editorial board of the South Carolina Law Review.