Donita Judge
Project Director, Redistricting
Donita has been a member of Advancement Project's Power and Democracy team since 2004 and is Advancement Project's state lead attorney covering Ohio. Since 2006, Judge has provided extensive testimony in Ohio on the rights of third-party groups to register voters and has engaged in strong advocacy to prevent voter suppression prior to the 2006 and 2008 Ohio elections. In 2006, Judge also successfully advocated for the rights of the displaced citizens of New Orleans to vote in the first election after Hurricane Katrina and to have a voice in rebuilding their city. Judge is an adjunct professor in the African-African/African Studies Department at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ where she teaches the course, "The African-American, the Law, and the Courts." Judge graduated with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and received her J.D. from Rutgers School of Law-Newark, where she served as Editor of the Rutgers Race and the Law Review, selected a Kinoy/Stavis Public Interest Fellow, an NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Earl Warren Scholar, and the recipient of the Judge J. Skelly Wright Prize. Prior to joining Advancement Project, Judge clerked for the Honorable Michelle Hollar-Gregory in New Jersey Superior Court-Newark.
Judge is admitted in New Jersey and Washington D.C.
Filed under Staff, Voter Protection, Redistricting
