About RACHEL LEE
RACHEL LEE BRAND built a law degree at Harvard after studying political science in Minnesota. She earned a B.A. from the University of Minnesota–Morris in 1995 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1998. Those academic years set the stage for a career that has moved between public service, private practice and corporate law.
Early in her career Brand clerked for Justice Charles Fried at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1998. She then took roles that combined litigation and political law. In 1999 she served as general counsel to Elizabeth Dole’s presidential exploratory committee and worked at Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal (also known as Cooper & Kirk) that same year.
Brand spent two formative years in the early 2000s at the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2002 she served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy. That clerkship was followed by private-practice experience at WilmerHale in 2007 and a stint on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board in 2012. Her work at the board touched on questions about security, privacy and how government programs affect civil liberties.
In 2017 Brand returned to the Justice Department, where she held the position listed as United States Associate Lawyer General. The title placed her within the department’s senior legal ranks during a period of high-profile litigation and regulatory review. A year later she moved into corporate leadership. In 2018 she joined Walmart as Executive Vice President of Global Governance, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary.
Brand maintains bar membership in both New York and the District of Columbia. Her professional path shows repeated moves between government posts and large organizations, bringing experience from federal courts, executive agencies and national law firms into corporate legal work. Colleagues and public records reflect a practice that engages both regulatory questions and internal governance structures.
She currently practices as an in-house lawyer at Walmart, handling matters of global governance, corporate legal affairs and corporate secretary responsibilities.
