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Penny Brown Reynolds

Penny Brown Reynolds (born 1961) is an American attorney, scholar, and senior executive, who is the current Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, leading the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights., The United States Department of Agriculture, serving since September 2022. She concurrently serves as USDA’s Chief EEO Officer for its 100,000 plus employees; having previously served as Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights from November 2023 – July 2024. She previously served as a trial court judge and was the first African American Executive Counsel to Georgia’s Governor and Chief of Staff and Executive Counsel to Georgia’s Lieutenant Governor

Early life and education

Brown Reynolds is a native of Louisiana. She graduated from East St. John High School in 1979, where she was Student Body President. Brown Reynolds earned a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Georgia State University, a Master of Arts, Religious Education from the Interdenominational Theological Center, a Juris Doctor from Georgia State University College of Law, a Ph.D. from Nova Southeastern University, and an Executive Education Certificate in Leadership from Harvard Kennedy School.

Career

Brown Reynolds has uniquely served in all branches of local, state, and federal government, as well as the judiciary. Her distinguished career in law has included serving for nearly a decade as a trial court Judge in Fulton County State Court, Atlanta, Georgia, where she was appointed as one of the youngest judges in Georgia’s history, where she was re-elected for two-four year terms, without opposition and also served as a Georgia State Assistant Attorney General, an Assistant District Attorney, and a judicial clerk for the Georgia Court of Appeals.

Brown Reynolds has been a successful entrepreneur and served as President and CEO of a consulting firm with expertise in change management and strategic planning. She oversaw an initiative creating 100 female businesses and non-profits. Brown Reynolds is heralded as a higher education and business thought leader. In 2019, Brown Reynolds received a dual appointment with the University System of Georgia to oversee the coordination and development to increase undergraduate student success and related operational initiatives, while simultaneously serving as an adjunct University Professor at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Department of Criminal Justice. Brown Reynolds was named the 2020 Instructor of the Year and is one of the nation’s preeminent experts in civil rights.

Brown Reynolds is a 30-year licensed attorney, registered mediator, arbitrator, and author and is the founding Chair of the Judicial Section of the Gate City Bar Association, an affiliate of the National Bar Association. A proponent of community engagement, she sponsored national conferences focused on financial empowerment, a girls leadership academy, summer leadership camp, library book boxes in underserved communities, stop the violence initiatives and voter education and registration. Brown Reynolds has been recognized nationally for her major contributions. She is a licensed minister and ordained Pastor.