Steven Bressler

Senior Legal Advisor

Steven Bressler is a Senior Legal Advisor at Democracy Forward.

Prior to joining Democracy Forward, he was at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he most recently served as Deputy General Counsel. At the CFPB he led all appellate, amicus, and defensive litigation work, including, with the Solicitor General, successful defense of the agency’s funding statute in the U.S. Supreme Court, and supervised responses to congressional oversight. He previously served at the DOJ in a variety of roles including Senior Trial Counsel in the Federal Programs Branch, where he litigated dozens of constitutional, administrative, national security, health care, and employment law cases; Chief of Staff in the Office of Legal Policy; and on detail to President Obama’s White House Counsel’s Office. He clerked for the Honorable Norma L. Shapiro on the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and, earlier in his career, was Senior Legislative Assistant to then-U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders.

Bressler holds a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. from Oberlin College.