Lori Locust

Lori Locust (born 1964) is an American football coach who is a defensive quality control coach for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL).

Early life Locust was born in 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Susquehanna Township High School in 1982, and attended Temple University for two years before leaving to tend to her ill father. A men's semi-professional football team, the Central Penn Piranha, hired her as an assistant coach in 2013.

On February 5, 2023, the Tennessee Titans hired Locust as a defensive assistant. The hiring made Locust Tennessee's first full-time female coach in franchise history. On January 22, 2026, it was announced that Locust would not be retained under new head coach Robert Saleh.

Personal Locust married, and later divorced, Andrew Locust, who played college football for Temple, and they had two children together.