Prior to joining SELC, Frank practiced law, with an emphasis on litigation, at Wyche, Burgess, Freeman, and Parham in Greenville, S.C. Frank served as the United States Deputy Secretary of Education, as Chief of Staff to U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley, and as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice. Frank was a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun and Judge Harrison Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Frank is a native of Seneca, S.C., and a graduate of Furman University, Harvard Law School, and the London School of Economics and Political Science (M.Sc.). In 2010, he received the Environmental Awareness Award from the State of South Carolina.