Rose Carmen Goldberg is Associate Director of Policy and Programs at the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession. She has a special interest and expertise in veterans’ access to justice.

Before joining Stanford Law School, Rose’s decade of public interest work spanned state service, legal aid, and all branches of the federal government. Most recently, she was a Deputy Attorney General in the California Attorney General’s Office, where she led affirmative civil litigation and policy advocacy focused primarily on gun violence prevention and veterans rights. Previously, she was a Skadden Fellow and Supervising Attorney at Swords to Plowshares, where she founded a Medical-Legal Partnership for unhoused and low-income veterans. The partnership integrated legal and mental health services for veterans who were kicked out of the military consequent to sexual assault, or racial or mental health discrimination.

Rose clerked for the Honorable Theodore A. McKee, then Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Her federal service also includes working at the White House in the Obama administration on Native American Affairs, and for Senator Blumenthal on Senate Judiciary Committee and gun violence prevention matters. Before law school, she worked at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and was nominated to serve on the Health Reform Evaluation Committee.

Rose has taught the Veterans Law Practicum and writing courses at UC Berkeley School of Law for several years, a course on Medical-Legal Partnerships at Columbia University, and op-ed writing at Stanford Continuing Studies. She has also served as invited faculty for the National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute. Her writing has appeared in the American Indian Law Journal, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, Stanford Law Review Online, Georgetown Law Journal Online, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, among other publications.

She received her J.D. at Yale Law School, M.P.A. at Columbia University, and B.A. at St. John’s College in beautiful New Mexico.