Deuel Ross

Deuel Ross is a Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”). In that role, he uses litigation and advocacy to ensure equal access to educational opportunities and the political process for people of color.

Deuel co-led the team in People First of Alabama v. Merrill, where, after a trial, a U.S. district court ruled that Alabama’s restrictive absentee voting rules violated the Voting Rights Act, and is lead counsel in Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Merrill, a voting rights case that he argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He has led or worked on successful challenges to other discriminatory voting laws in Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, and South Carolina. And he served on the trial team and co-wrote the appellate briefs in Veasey v. Abbott, the successful case against Texas’s voter ID law.