Linda Lorimer is an American university administrator.

Lorimer graduated from the Norfolk Academy

Norfolk Academy

Norfolk Academy is an independent co-educational day school in Norfolk, Virginia. Chartered in 1728, it is the oldest secondary school in Virginia and the eighth oldest in the United States...

, Hollins University

Hollins University

Hollins University is a four-year institution of higher education, a private university located on a campus on the border of Roanoke County, Virginia and Botetourt County, Virginia...

, and Yale Law School

Yale Law School

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...

. She practiced law in New York City

New York City

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 with the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is an international law firm. The firm employs more than 800 attorneys worldwide and is headquartered in New York City. The firm represents many of the world's largest companies and leading financial institutions, and is best known for its corporate and litigation...

 before holding a series of administrative positions at Yale between 1978 and 1986, including service as the youngest Associate Provost in the history of the University.

From 1986 to 1993 Lorimer was President of Randolph-Macon Woman's College.

As of 2009, she is Vice President and Secretary of Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

. As secretary, she is a key adviser to University President Richard C. Levin; in addition, she oversees certain key university spaces, the Yale University Police Department, and university licensing policy. Lorimer is married to Charles Ellis, a member of the Yale Corporation

Yale Corporation

The Yale Corporation, sometimes, and more formally, known as The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.The Corporation comprises 19 members:...

, or board of trustees.

According to Roger Kimball

Roger Kimball

Roger Kimball is a conservative U.S. art critic and social commentator. He was educated at Cheverus High School, a Jesuit institution in South Portland, Maine, and then at Bennington College, where he took a BA in philosophy and classical Greek, and Yale University...

, Lorimer was involved in the decision to expunge the Muhammad cartoons

Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy began after 12 editorial cartoons, most of which depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad, were published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on 30 September 2005...

 from the Yale University Press

Yale University Press

Yale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous....

 book The Cartoons that Shook the World

The Cartoons that Shook the World

The Cartoons that Shook the World is a 2009 book by Brandeis University professor Jytte Klausen about the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. Klausen contends that the controversy was deliberately stoked up by people with vested interests on all sides, and argues against the view that it...

for fear of Muslim violence.