Early career
Brand, the daughter and granddaughter of Dutch dairy farmers, was born in
Muskegon, Michigan and raised in
Pella, Iowa,
[3][4][2]where she attended Pella Christian High School.
[5] Brand studied at the
University of Minnesota Morris from 1991–95, graduating with a
B.A. degree in political science. She then attended
Harvard Law School (1995–98), where she was deputy editor-in-chief of the
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
[6] After receiving her
J.D. degree, Brand clerked for Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice
Charles Fried in 1998–99 and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Anthony Kennedy in 2002–03.
[7] In 1999, she also served as General Counsel for
Elizabeth Dole's presidential exploratory committee.
[6] From 1999 to 2000, Brand worked at the firm
Cooper, Carvin, & Rosenthal, now known as Cooper & Kirk.
[8]
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