Rachel Brand is Walmart’s executive vice president of global governance, chief legal officer, and corporate secretary. She oversees the company’s global legal, compliance, ethics, corporate governance, digital citizenship, aviation, investigative, and corporate security functions, including Walmart’s Emergency Operations Center.
Immediately before joining Walmart, Brand served as the United States Associate Attorney General and holds the distinction of being the first woman to serve in this role. She had previously served in the U.S. Department of Justice as the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Policy during President George W. Bush’s administration. Her other government service includes an appointment by President Barack Obama to serve as a member of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, service as an associate counsel to the president at the White House, and judicial clerkships with Justice Charles Fried of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and Justice Anthony Kennedy at the Supreme Court of the United States. In the private sector, Brand was a lawyer in private practice at two law firms in Washington, D.C., and served as the vice president and chief counsel for regulatory litigation at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Litigation Center.
Rachel serves on the board of directors for the Walmart Foundation and is the executive sponsor for Walmart’s Tribal Voices Associate Resource Group. Outside of Walmart, she serves on the board of directors for the International Justice Mission and is a member of The American Law Institute.
Rachel earned her BA from the University of Minnesota-Morris and her law degree from Harvard Law School.
