Dale Ho joined the staff of LDF in September 2009 as Assistant Counsel in the Political Participation Group. His work at LDF includes litigation under the Voting Rights Act, felon disfranchisement, prison-based gerrymandering, barriers to registration, and ballot access. For two years prior, he was the NAACP LDF Fellow at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, where he litigated complex commercial matters and federal civil rights cases. He previously served as a Law Clerk, first to Judge Barbara S. Jones, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then to Judge Robert S. Smith, New York Court of Appeals. His writings have appeared in the Florida Law Review, the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal, and the Michigan Journal of Race and Law.
Dale graduated from Yale Law School with a J.D. in 2005, and from Princeton University with an A.B. in Political Philosophy, Highest Honors, in 1999.