Mary Frederick Coy, SPHR
Vice President, Administration & Counsel

Mary Frederick Coy is Vice President Administration & Counsel and Assistant Secretary and Fiscal Officer for the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority.

Appointed to her current position in 1997, Ms. Coy oversees the Human Resources, Legal and Administrative Divisions which provides support services for the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority divisions, including Finance, New Project Development and the Port’s two operating divisions: Seaport and Airports.

Prior to joining the Port Authority staff as Staff Counsel in 1986, Ms. Coy was a litigation associate with the Toledo law firm of Fuller & Henry and a product liability and commercial litigation associate with the Detroit, Michigan law firm of Dykema Gosset. Ms. Coy also taught junior and senior high school in Kentucky, Toledo and Perrysburg, Ohio before joining the Port staff.

A native of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Ms. Coy earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky, majoring in history and political science. Ms. Coy earned her Doctorate of Jurisprudence degree, cum laude, from the University of Toledo College of Law where she served as a Student Bar Association Representative, was a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, was elected to membership in the Order of the Coif, selected as Note and Comment Editor of the Toledo Law Review, and authored, Note, “Santosky v. Kramer: A Higher Evidentiary Standard Is Applied in Parental Termination Rights Cases, 14 U.Tol. L. Rev. 165 (1982). Ms. Coy earned University of Toledo College of Law Book Awards for Copyrights, Patents and Trademarks and Real Estate Transactions and the American Juriprudence Book Awards in Contracts and Property.

Ms. Coy is a current member of the Law Review Committee of the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), the Legal Committee of Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA), and the American, Ohio and Toledo Bar Associations.

Ms. Coy is certified through the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) as both a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and is a current member of SHRM and the Toledo Area Human Resources Association (TAHRA).