Tina Fernandes Botts is an American legal scholar and philosophy professor currently teaching at Washburn University School of Law.

[3] Previous posts include Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College; Visiting Professor of Law at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law; Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno; Visiting Assistant Professor of philosophy at Oberlin College; Fellow in Law and Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;[4] and Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and Faculty Associate and Area Leader in Public Policy and Diversity, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

[5] Botts earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Memphis[6] under the supervision of Thomas Nenon, her J.D.

in philosophy with a minor in physics from the University of Maryland at College Park.

[8] Botts' research areas are constitutional law, philosophy of law (including critical race theory), philosophical hermeneutics, philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, ethical theory, and applied ethics.