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Megan Keenan

Staff Attorney

ACLU Voting Rights Project

Pronouns: she/her

Bio

Megan litigates voting rights cases nationwide at the trial and appellate level, including challenges to redistricting, restrictions on mail voting and voter registration, and other discriminatory barriers to voting. Her litigation experience includes serving as lead trial counsel and arguing appeals in state and federal court. She has recently served as lead counsel in Nairne v. Landry, which challenges Louisiana’s most recent state legislative maps as violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose, which challenged an Ohio law making it a felony for anyone except an election official to return an absentee voter’s ballot—including those of voters with disabilities.

Before joining the ACLU, Megan practiced appellate, commercial, and pro bono litigation at Covington & Burling LLP. Megan also served as a judicial law clerk to Chief Judge R. Guy Cole, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Judge Toby J. Heytens of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Megan received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and her bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University.