Rabbi David Segal is BJC’s policy counsel, implementing legislative and policy reform strategies, conducting legal analysis on relevant litigation matters, and collaborating with BJC’s Christians Against Christian Nationalism movement on grasstops mobilization.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in Classics and Jewish Studies at Princeton University, Segal worked as a legislative assistant at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC) in Washington, D.C. His portfolio included civil rights, criminal justice reform, and interfaith dialogue.
Segal attended rabbinical seminary at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, studying in Jerusalem and New York City. After his 2010 ordination, he served a congregation in Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado with his wife and co-clergy, Cantor Rollin Simmons. In 2017, Segal moved back to his hometown of Houston, Texas, to found RAC-TX as its lead organizer, overseeing statewide social justice campaigns through several sessions of the Texas Legislature.
While working as a community organizer, Segal felt called to law school in his path toward working at the intersection of faith and public life. He enrolled at the University of Houston Law Center, where he graduated magna cum laude in 2024 and was a member of the Houston Law Review. Segal then spent one year as a clerk for the Honorable Yvonne Ho, Magistrate Judge, Southern District of Texas-Houston Division.
Segal and his wife, Rollin Simmons, have two children and live in Houston.
