Dale Ho is a United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York. Prior to being appointed as a federal judge, he was the Director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project. In that capacity, he supervised the ACLU’s voting rights litigation nationwide, including arguing two cases before the United States Supreme Court. He is the first lawyer since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be appointed as an Article III judge directly from the ACLU.

Prior to his work at the ACLU, Judge Ho was Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP; and a judicial law clerk, to Judge Barbara S. Jones, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and to Judge Robert S. Smith, at the New York Court of Appeals.

Judge Ho has served as an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law, Brooklyn Law School, and New York Law School. He has published articles in law reviews including the Yale Law Journal Forum and the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.

Judge Ho is the recipient of the 2020 Asian Law Alliance Legal Impact Award, and the 2019 National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) President’s Award. In 2018, he was named to the New York City Charter Revision Commission. In 2017, he was named one of the best Asian American Lawyers under 40 by NAPABA. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Princeton University.