Board Member

Rebecca Troth

Rebecca Troth has been a member of the board of Open City Advocates since 2006 and served as chair from 2007 to 2015 Becky has devoted her career to public interest and social justice causes. She most recently served as Executive Director of the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center. For ten years before that, she was Pro Bono Counsel for Sidley Austin LLP’s Washington, D.C. office. Her other positions include Legal Director of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty and legal writing instructor at American University’s Washington College of Law, where she met the co-founders of Open City Advocates. She served as a senior attorney in the Appellate Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1991 to 2000, and again in 2001. In the interim, Becky was Counsel to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. She is a former member of the D.C. Access to Justice Commission and the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court and is on the board of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Indigent Civil Litigation Fund, Inc. Becky graduated from Macalester College and the University of Michigan School of Law.