Ruth Greenwood

Ruth Greenwood
Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Election Law Clinic
2021-2022
Biography
Ruth is the Director of the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School. She engages in litigation and advocacy on a variety of election law cases, while training the next generation of election lawyers.
Ruth litigated two partisan gerrymandering cases from the trial level to the Supreme Court of the United States, Gill v. Whitford and Rucho v. Common Cause, and, with her team, won the first ever tri-coalition claim under the federal Voting Rights Act in Holloway v. City of Virginia Beach. In addition, Ruth has advised dozens of state advocates on drafting and implementing independent redistricting commissions, state voting rights acts, and adopting ranked choice voting.
Ruth was previously the Co-Director of Voting Rights and Redistricting at the Campaign Legal Center, Lead Counsel for Voting Rights at the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and a Redistricting Fellow with the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute. She received her LL.M from Columbia Law School in 2009, and her LL.B./B.Sc. from the University of Sydney in 2005. Ruth is admitted to practice as an attorney in Massachusetts, Illinois and New York.
Areas of Interest
- Election Law
- Constitutional Law
- Law and Inequality: Discrimination
Bar Admissions
- Supreme Court of the United States (2017)
- Massachussetts Bar, Massachusetts (2021)
- Illinois Bar, Illinois (2013)
- New York Bar, New York (2011)
- Federal Court for the District of Massachussetts, Massachusetts (2021)
- Federal Court for Northern District of Illinois, Illinois (2013)
- United States Court of Appeals for Seventh Circuit (2013)
- United States Court of Appeals for Eighth Circuit (2020)
Board Memberships
- Board Member and Secretary, PlanScore (2019 - Present)
Education History
- LL.M. Columbia Law School, 2009
- LL.B. University of Sydney, 2005
- B.Sc. University of Sydney, 2003
Current Courses
- Election Law Clinic, Fall 2021
- Election Law Clinic, Spring 2022
- Election Law Clinical Seminar, Fall 2021
- Election Law Clinical Seminar, Spring 2022