Renisha Ricks is a graduate of Louisiana State University (B.A.), Johns Hopkins University (M.A.), and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D.). At Cardozo, she earned the Jacob Burns Medal for academic achievement  and professional activities, earned a Certificate of Distinction in Dispute Resolution, and served as the Managing Editor of the Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. She is also a graduate of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (LL.M.), where she studied taxation and served as a Staff Editor on The Tax Lawyer. Following her graduation from Northwestern, she joined KPMG’s Washington National Tax Controversy and Dispute Resolution Services practice. While there, she co-authored scholarship on a Treasury regulation interpreting section 7508A(d)’s automatic and mandatory extension for filing a Tax Court petition in Tax Notes (Tax Analysts, with Mary I. Slonina and Christopher M. Whitcomb). She also wrote on renewable energy tax credits in Wolters Kluwer’s Journal of Taxation of Financial Products and in the 5th edition of FINANCIAL PRODUCTS: TAXATION,
REGULATION, AND DESIGN (CCH Incorporated, with Andrea S. Kramer and Nicholas C. Mowbray). In preparation for a teaching career, she recently completed an unpublished article on excise taxes for an emerging commercial sector for the 2025 Faculty Appointments Register. Her work reflects a commitment to translating complex tax doctrine into clear materials for students,
faculty, and practitioners.