Ron Wilson is a civil rights icon. Since graduating from law school in 1975, Ron has been engaged in the private practice of law – primarily public interest and civil rights litigation. He is a cooperating attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, handling primarily employment and voting rights cases, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, litigating Establishment Clause. on has litigated numerous cases in the areas of housing discrimination, employment discrimination, school desegregation, voting rights, police misconduct, prison conditions, separation of church and state, freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process of law and equal protection.
He has litigated numerous cases in the areas of housing discrimination, school desegregation, voting rights, police misconduct, prison conditions, separation of church and state, freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process of law, and equal protection under the law. He has prepared and assisted in the preparation of briefs submitted to the United States Court of Appeal for the Second and Fifth Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. He was one of the attorneys of record in Edwards v. Aguillard, 107 S. Ct. 2573 (1987), in which the Louisiana Creation Science law was held unconstitutional, Chisom v. Roemer, 111 S. Ct. 2334 (1991), in which the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 1973, et seq., was held applicable to judicial elections; Terrebonne Parish Branch NAACP, et al v. Piyush (“Bobby”) Jindal, the Governor of Louisiana, Civil No. 3:14-cv-00069 (MDLA), in which the Louisiana was held in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended; and Scott, et v. Schedler, et al, 771 F.3d 831 (5 Cir. 2014), in which Louisiana was held to be in violation of the Motor Vehicle Registration Act of 1993. He was counsel of record for plaintiff in Yusuf v. Vassar College, 35 F.3d 709 (2d Cir. 1994), in which the Court established two specific categories of Title IX violations stemming from campus disciplinary action: erroneous outcome and selective enforcement.
He has litigated numerous other voting rights cases resulting in the election an African Americans to the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Fifth Circuit, Town of Amite Board of Aldermen, Jefferson Parish Council, Jefferson Parish School Board, Gretna Board of Aldermen, Gretna Board of Aldermen, and Westwego Board of Aldermen, and St. Bernard Parish School Board.
Ron has also played a leadership role with the Legal Aid Bureau and the Amistad Research Center. When Ron is not busy reading, he can be found preparing for the next marathon; of which Ron has completed 13 to date.
