Rebecca Cary

Rebecca Cary is Special Counsel for the Animal Protection Law section of the Humane Society of the United States, where she has worked since 2010. Her practice includes farm animal welfare and constitutional defense issues, and she has been the lead attorney on multiple challenges to state farm animal confinement and sales initiatives, including the NPPC v. Ross case in which the Supreme Court upheld California’s Proposition 12 this year. Ms. Cary is a 2009 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, and a 2005 graduate of the University of California San Diego, where she was a founding member of a student animal welfare group. She currently co-chairs the District of Columbia Bar’s Animal Law section, and is also adjunct faculty at George Mason, where she is co-teaches an animal law class.