Marla feldman

Marla applies her legal and advocacy skills, as well as her rabbinic training, to representing clergy on employment contract matters. Prior to joining Peer, Gan & Gisler, LLP Marla served as the Executive Director of Women of Reform Judaism, an association of hundreds of Reform Jewish women’s organizations serving about 40,000 members. In that capacity, Marla advocated for women’s employment and other rights, with a focus on gender pay equity. Prior to that, she led the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, the public policy arm of the Reform Jewish Movement. Her social justice work included leading interfaith missions to Africa, where she worked with refugees and helped rebuild communities across the U.S.  Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina and other depressed communities across the U.S.

Marla received a B.A. in Jewish Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and was ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). She also received a Certificate in Fundraising from the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Before joining the Bar, Marla was a congregational rabbi in Sarasota and Orlando, FL.

After receiving her law degree from the University of Florida College of Law, Marla worked in Jewish community relations, focusing on public policy matters and inter-group relations in Detroit and Delaware. .

Marla also taught as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Detroit-Mercy and the Widener University College of Law in Wilmington, DE, and she writes extensively on issues concerning women clergy and other religious and social justice matters. She published a book in 2023 and her articles and op-eds have appeared in Jewish publications and newspapers nationwide.