Rachel Appel

Legal Counsel, Voting Rights

At CLC, Rachel litigates voting rights cases in state and federal court to protect voters' access to the ballot box and our democratic system.

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Portrait of Rachel Appel

Prior to law school, Rachel worked at a number of organizations, including at the ACLU of Utah and the League of Women Voters, where she monitored elections to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act and helped advance redistricting legislation, respectively. During law school, Rachel interned at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the ACLU Voting Rights Project and the DOJ Civil Rights Division Voting Section. She published “The Pandora’s Box of ’Voter Fraud.’

Rachel is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (J.D. 2023) and Binghamton University (B.A. and B.S. 2014). She is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia. Rachel first joined CLC in September 2023 as an Equal Justice Works Fellow.