Cassandra Knight, BA ’91, JD ’94

Board Member

Cassandra joined PayPal in November 2017 as its VP, Chief Litigation Counsel with more than 20 years of complex litigation experience including over 10 years in the financial services industry. She came to PayPal from Morgan Stanley where she worked in the San Francisco, New York and London offices. She has handled a wide variety of litigation matters including federal securities class action suits, international arbitrations and regulatory enforcement matters. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Cassandra practiced law at Keker & Van Nest and the City Attorney’s Office in San Francisco. Cassandra earned her BA from Stanford University and her JD from Stanford Law School.

On a personal note, she is an avid sports fan, favoring the San Francisco Giants, the 49ers, and the Stanford Cardinal football and basketball teams. She also enjoys quilting, a family tradition that dates back several generations. She is inspired by her own family members, who were talented quilters from Mississippi, and the renowned quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Cassandra’s work was recently featured in the Fiber Matrix, an exhibit at the Westbeth Gallery in New York City.