Rachel Allen was born in Annapolis, Maryland.  She attended Iowa State University, obtaining her B.A. in 2003 in Political Science and International Studies.  She studied law at Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law where she served as an Editor on the Yearbook of Arbitration and Mediation.  Ms. Allen received her J.D. in 2010.

Ms. Allen served as a Certified Legal Intern with the Penn State Family Law Clinic in 2009 and 2010.  She then served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert B. Coonin and the Honorable Arlene Minus Coppadge of the Family Court of the State of Delaware from 2010 to 2011.  She was admitted to the bar of the State of Delaware in March 2011.