Staff

Before Law Forward, TR (he/him) spent more than a decade working in labor, community and political organizing. He is a zealous advocate for strong communities, family-supporting jobs, and equity. In addition to his work at Law Forward, he is active in pro bono and currently serves as the Community Outreach Chair for the Wisconsin Association of African American Lawyers. TR is a huge movie buff, and as a former collegiate athlete, he enjoys training and finding new ways to compete. TR is a Milwaukee native, and as Law Forward’s only Marquette lawyer, he makes an effort to wear something blue every day.

Kacy (she/her) joined Law Forward after years of commercial litigation practice. She moved to Madison in 2018 to attend UW Law School and has been deeply invested in the Madison community ever since. Kacy couldn’t be more excited to devote her career to defending democracy and fighting for the people of Wisconsin as Staff Counsel for Law Forward. A former college athlete, Kacy spends her time outside of work coaching and playing volleyball (among other sports), spending time with her pets, and reading as many books as the library will give her.

Jeff (he/him) has nearly twenty years of experience in complex litigation and appellate advocacy. He is widely recognized as one of Wisconsin’s leading experts in election-law and constitutional litigation. In 2020, as special counsel to Governor Tony Evers, Jeff played a lead role in repelling the bevy of attacks against Wisconsin’s election results. Earlier in 2020, before he was on the Law Forward staff, Jeff was the lead lawyer who kept Kanye West and Howie Hawkins off of the Wisconsin ballot because they had not followed the rules to obtain ballot access. Jeff has handled a variety of high-profile cases before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, including on absentee-ballot drop boxes, indefinitely confined voters, attempted purges of the voter rolls, separation of powers, and other issues. 

As one of Law Forward’s co-founders, Jeff sought to build legal infrastructure that would help ensure that democracy in Wisconsin works for everyone. After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School with high honors, Jeff served as a law clerk to the Honorable A. Raymond Randolph at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Jeff has worked in private practice at leading law firms in Chicago, Washington, and Madison, racking up successful outcome and accolades throughout his career. Jeff is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of both the American Bar Foundation and the Wisconsin Bar Foundation. 

Before becoming a lawyer, Jeff worked at various times as a policy advocate, a magazine writer, a test-prep instructor, an American poetry scholar, a telemarketer, a waiter, and a water-park lifeguard. He earned a master’s degree in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. degree from Trinity University. He and his family have happily been Wisconsinites since 2015.

Doug (he/him), one of Law Forward’s co-founders, has three decades of significant experience in complex litigation matters in state and federal courts in Wisconsin, Illinois, and throughout the US. Doug has served as lead counsel in trials and injunction hearings before federal, state, and administrative courts, and has substantial experience in state and federal appellate courts throughout the country, including briefing appeals to the US Supreme Court and presenting arguments to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Doug’s practice focuses on democracy, election, and voting rights law, and he has been recognized as the leading redistricting lawyer in Wisconsin. Doug served as co-lead trial counsel for plaintiffs who successfully challenged the Wisconsin Assembly legislative districts before three-judge federal panels in 2012 and 2016, and before the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the landmark Clarke v. Wisconsin Elections Commission case in 2023. Doug served as one of the members of the legal team that represented the respondents before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Gill v. Whitford partisan gerrymandering case. Doug was the lead counsel for plaintiffs in Lewis v. Bostelmann, who obtained a preliminary injunction in federal court extending the deadline to return mail-in absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s 2020 spring election by six days.

Doug was raised in the Milwaukee area and returned to Wisconsin in 2005, settling with his family in Madison, where he is actively engaged in community service. He is a past Chair of the Board of Directors of Downtown Madison, Inc., a non-profit membership organization that represents the interests of Madison businesses, residents, employees, and visitors. Doug also serves in leadership positions on several neighborhood, civic, church, and bar organizations. He is an avid cyclist, enjoys traveling with his family, and when he is not working, can be found kayaking and SUPing on lakes in Madison and northern Wisconsin.

Rachel (she/her) joined Law Forward in 2025 with over a decade of legal practice experience, including years both in nonpartisan Wisconsin legislative service and with a private firm. Rachel’s work has covered a range of policy issues, including K-12 and higher education, state tribal relations, federal, state, and local tax and governance, nonprofit governance, campaign finance, and election and political law. She is passionate about preserving and strengthening democracy, government transparency, high-quality policy development, and civic education. Outside of work, Rachel is an insatiable reader and podcast consumer, amateur archer, and aspiring dog-owner.