Timothy Pillari

As Executive Director for Gift Planning, T.J. Pillari oversees Notre Dame's Gift Planning Advancement and Gift Planning Strategic Operations teams, maintaining responsibility at the University for all fundraising and operational infrastructure pertaining to estate gifts, charitable remainder trusts, donor advised funds, and other structured and planned gifts. Since 2019, T.J. has also led the University’s Love Thee Notre Dame initiative, which highlights the importance and value of planned gifts for the University and for Notre Dame families.

T.J. is a "Double Domer", having earned his Bachelor of Arts from Notre Dame in the Program of Liberal Studies in 2003 and his Juris Doctorate from Notre Dame Law School in 2008. Following law school and prior to his return to Notre Dame in 2017, T.J. worked as an attorney in private practice in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Most recently, T.J. served as a shareholder, member of the Board of Directors, and Chairperson of the Probate and Estate Planning Practice Group at Wickens Herzer in Avon, Ohio, where T.J. provided estate, tax, and business succession planning counsel to high net-worth individuals and families. T.J. and his wife, Quinn, also a 2003 graduate of Notre Dame, have four children.