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Darrin Hurwitz

Assistant General Counsel, Human Rights Campaign (HRC)

Darrin Hurwitz serves as Assistant General Counsel for the Human Rights Campaign. Hurwitz provides advice to the organization on political compliance issues including federal and state campaign finance and lobbying disclosure regulation as well as on other nonprofit management matters. Hurwitz also offers legal support to the HRC Foundation, HRC PAC, and the organization’s affiliated state PACs.



Prior to joining HRC in 2006, Hurwitz was an associate at Covington & Burling LLP, where he specialized in election and political law. In 2004 he served as in-house legal counsel to the campaign organization America Coming Together. Hurwitz was a campaign aide to California State Controller Kathleen Connell in 1997-98.



Hurwitz received his bachelor's degree from UCLA and his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. After law school Hurwitz clerked for Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia and California.