Jodie Morse

Chief Program and Strategy Officer and Senior Counselor

Jodie Morse is the Chief Program and Strategy Officer at Democracy Forward.

Jodie is a litigator and strategic advisor with experience in all three branches of government, private practice, and the non-profit world. She most recently served as Deputy Associate Attorney General at the Department of Justice, where she helped to oversee the Civil Division, the Office of Information Policy, and the Tax Division and also served as the Executive Director of the Reproductive Rights Task Force, where she lead day-to-day the Department’s work to safeguard reproductive freedoms under federal law following the Dobbs decision.

Immediately prior to the Department of Justice, Jodie worked at the White House and the Office of Management and Budget. A founding member of the Democracy Forward litigation team, Jodie also previously served as Deputy General Counsel in the Office of General Counsel in the U.S. House of Representatives and worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and at a global law firm.

Jodie received her J.D. magna cum laude from New York University School of Law and her B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University and served as a law clerk for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the Eastern District of New York.