Tammy Frisby

Tammy Frisby is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Salt Lake City office. She joined the firm in 2025. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Frisby clerked for the Honorable Howard C. Nielson, Jr. in the federal district of Utah and Associate Chief Justice Thomas R. Lee on the Utah Supreme Court.

Ms. Frisby holds a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. For a decade, she taught U.S. politics and public policymaking (both federal and state) at Stanford University.

While at Stanford, Ms. Frisby was also a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, the public policy think tank located on Stanford’s campus. As a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Ms. Frisby provided research-based guidance to public policymakers, including elected officials and political candidates. She also wrote short and long-form pieces of social science analysis for publications including Policy Review and The Wall Street Journal. Ms. Frisby was the survey director for the Stanford Golden State Poll, a statewide public opinion survey on politics and policy, with survey results featured by Real Clear Politics, POLITICO, and bi-partisan issue campaigns. She served as an expert source for print journalists at publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, POLITICO, L.A. Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Atlantic. Ms. Frisby also appeared regularly on radio and TV as a political analyst.

In addition to her experience in federal and state courts, Ms. Frisby has substantial in-house and government legal experience from her years with the Office of General Counsel at the University of Utah. Ms. Frisby advised the university on matters related to main campus, covering a range of student, faculty, and institutional issues, as well as health care matters for the university’s academic medical center and regional health care system.