Former senior Department of Justice leader, court reform advocate, and nonprofit leader
Bert Brandenburg has spent his career at the intersection of law, policy, and politics, with a special focus on nonpartisan approaches to the courts, democracy and the rule of law. An attorney by training, his leadership roles have included service as Director of Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Justice and Deputy Director of one of DoJ’s agencies, the Community Relations Service.
For a dozen years Bert led Justice at Stake—a nonpartisan national partnership to keep courts fair and impartial whose Honorary Chair was Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor—which worked with court and civic leaders to win national visibility for courts issues, educate the public, and advance and defend reforms to insulate courts from partisan pressure.
Bert has also chaired the boards of two money and politics organizations, served as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and worked at a think tank, on Capitol Hill, on two presidential campaigns, and for a presidential transition—as well as at a project to help a developing nation’s health care system use AI to scale up its response to HIV/AIDS.
