Rachel Homer

Director of Democracy 2025 & Senior Attorney

Rachel Homer is the Director of Democracy 2025 & Senior Attorney at Democracy Forward. 

She joins Democracy Forward after serving most recently as the Chief of Staff of the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education, where she helped lead the 120-person legal office, overseeing numerous legal matters, including advising on litigation, regulatory matters, and policy issues. She previously worked as Counsel at Protect Democracy, focusing on litigating civil rights cases, especially cases challenging voter intimidation, and advising on numerous related issues involving voting rights, abuses of power, and other democracy issues. She also previously served as a litigator at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff. Earlier in her career, she worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human services implementing the Affordable Care Act. 

She clerked for Chief Judge Diane P. Wood on the 7th Circuit and for Judge John D. Bates on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She graduated from Harvard Law School, where she served on the Harvard Law Review, and from Yale College. She is a member of Massachusetts and DC bars.