Rachel Brown is a recent Metro retiree who hails from Gary, Indiana and matriculated through the Gary Public Schools. She attended Hampton Institute in Hampton Virginia, majoring in Mass Communications. She enjoyed a successful career in television news as a reporter/news anchor in Toledo, OH, Evansville, IN, and Raleigh, NC. , where she handled the police, consumer and education beats. Ms. Brown also hosted and produced her own daily public affairs program, interviewing many local personalities on various topics of interest.

She left television news to pursue a legal education at Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. She interned with White Communications law firm in Washington, D.C. before taking a position with the Office of General Counsel at Washington Gas Company where she was part of the legal regulatory team handling natural gas rate cases to be presented before the DC Public Service Commission.

Ms. Brown and her family moved to Orlando, Florida in 1988 to follow her husband’s career pursuits. While there, she served as Associate at several local law firms, then took as position as an Administrative Hearing Officer for the Florida Department of Labor and Employment Security hearing unemployment compensation appeals cases. The Brown family returned to the area in 1995 when she began a career with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in the Office of Civil Rights. She served as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Specialist, Equal Employment Opportunity Investigator, and later, as a Procurement Policy Analyst. Her professional responsibility and ethics training allowed her to team with other Metro procurement professionals to revise and edit Metro’s Procurement Policy Manual and serve as a subject matter expert on procurement policy issues.

In addition to her new duties as Alternate Member of the WSSC Board of Ethics, Ms. Brown currently serves as President of the Montgomery County Stroke Association, is the NAACP Parent Council Representative for Briggs Chaney Middle School in Montgomery County, is founder of a patient advocacy business and is currently writing a book about her experiences as caregiver to her husband, who is a stroke survivor.

Ms. Brown is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar and is a Notary Public in the state of Maryland.

Ms. Brown was appointed to the Board of Ethics on October 21, 2009.