Patricia McCoy

Patricia McCoy is the inaugural Liberty Mutual Insurance Professor and Faculty Director, Rappaport Center for Law & Public Policy at Boston College Law School. 

In 2010 and 2011, McCoy joined the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she helped form the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and oversaw the Bureau’s mortgage policy initiatives as the CFPB’s first head of mortgage markets. She teaches insurance law, banking regulation, consumer financial protection, and a full array of other financial regulatory courses.

Previously, McCoy was a visiting scholar at the MIT Economics Department and served on the Federal Reserve’s Consumer Advisory Council and the board of the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association. In 2012, the American Law Institute named her as an adviser to the Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts. More recently, she sat on the Insurance Policy Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board and the FDIC’s Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion. The American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers elected her as a Fellow in 2022.

McCoy received her law degree from U.C. Berkeley, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Industrial Relations Law Journal. She clerked for the Hon. Robert S. Vance on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit before becoming a partner at Mayer Brown in Washington, D.C., specializing in complex securities, banking, and constitutional litigation. Later, she was the Director of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law before joining the Boston College faculty in 2014.

She was appointed to the NCLC board in 2026.