Timothy Phillips

Chief Legal Officer

Tim Phillips is Habitat for Humanity International’s principal adviser on legal, governance, risk management and compliance matters and also oversees legal support for the organization’s corporate transactional matters, including Habitat Capital, the Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter and the MicroBuild initiative. Tim is an accomplished and recognized legal and risk management leader known to inspire and build consensus among teams and stakeholders at all levels within large nonprofits, law firms and the United States military.

Before coming to Habitat, Tim served for six years as chief legal and risk officer for the American Cancer Society – considered the world’s largest voluntary health organization. Before that, he was the organization’s general counsel and senior counsel. Tim also has worked as a tax specialist at Troutman Sanders (now Troutman Pepper) in Atlanta, directing complex financing transactions and supporting nonprofit, community and faith-based organizations and their for-profit development partners, including tax credit financing for affordable housing.

Tim is a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science. He also earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. A native of Washington, D.C., Tim is a proud dad to Jacob and Miles and serves as a lector and eucharistic minister to the sick and homebound of St. Ann’s parish in Marietta, Georgia. He is also a certified health coach and physical fitness enthusiast and serves as general counsel for the Navy SEAL Foundation.