DAVID LOY

Director of The ACLU

San Diego and Imperial Counties

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David Loy is legal director for the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties, where he supervises a complex civil liberties docket. He has litigated significant cases at the intersection of fair housing and immigrants’ rights, including the recent case of Southwest Key Programs, Inc. v. City of Escondido, which arose from the city’s refusal to permit a group home for unaccompanied immigrant children fleeing violence and persecution in Central America. After graduating Northwestern University School of Law in 1994, he clerked for Judge Dolores K. Sloviter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and worked as a staff attorney with Office of the Appellate Defender in New York City and public defender and civil rights attorney in Spokane, Washington before joining the ACLU in 2006.