Dr. Ruth Greenwood

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Ruth Greenwood is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Law School, where she directs the Election Law Clinic. Her work focuses on litigation advocacy in various election law cases, training the next generation of election lawyers. Ruth has litigated significant partisan gerrymandering cases at both the trial level and the Supreme Court of the United States, including Gill v. Whitford and Rucho v. Common Cause. Her expertise also encompasses minority vote dilution claims under federal and state voting rights acts and racial gerrymandering claims, in addition to cases alleging burdens on the fundamental right to vote. Moreover, Ruth has advised numerous state advocates on drafting and implementing independent redistricting commissions and state voting rights acts, and she has championed the adoption of ranked choice voting. Prior to her role at Harvard, Ruth was the Co-Director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Campaign at the Campaign Legal Center, and she served as Lead Counsel for the Voting Rights program at the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Law, as well as a Redistricting Fellow at the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute.

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