Rylee Sommers-Flanagan

Rylee Sommers-Flanagan is the founder of Upper Seven Law, a nonprofit law firm based in Montana dedicated to holding those in power accountable. Before founding Upper Seven Law, she served as Montana Governor Steve Bullock’s deputy chief legal counsel. Sommers-Flanagan also worked as a fellow for the class action firm, Cohen Milstein, and as the Supreme Court Assistance Project Fellow for the Public Citizen Litigation Group. Before that, she clerked for the Honorable Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit, and Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle and Judge Thomas Hogan of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. She graduated from Stanford Law School, where she served as president of the Stanford student chapter of the American Constitution Society, graduated magna cum laude from Emory University, and she has a creative writing degree from the University of St. Andrews.