Anne Bilder

Anne E. Bilder currently serves as General Counsel for the University of Northern Iowa. Prior to that, she served as Senior University Legal Counsel in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Legal Affairs (OLA). Her principal practice areas included employment law, student affairs, legal issues related to campus programs for children and youth, Title IX, privacy and cybersecurity, and diversity issues. 

Before joining OLA, Anne was Senior System Legal Counsel in the Office of General Counsel for the University of Wisconsin System where she was an attorney since 1998, and handled a broad range of legal issues affecting System administration and its many comprehensive and associate degree-granting institutions. 

Anne is a graduate of Carleton College and the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she was a member of Law Review. She also has a Master’s degree in Educational Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and teaches courses in privacy law at the Law School and a course in Legal Aspects of Higher Education at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. 

An active member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), she has served on several NACUA committees and has given presentations at annual conferences. In addition, she has spoken at other national higher education and law conferences, as well as to a wide variety of statewide and regional audiences on topics including employment law, Title IX, student privacy, student discipline, and diversity. She has also served as Co-Chair of the UW System President’s Task Force on Sexual Violence and Harassment.