Joshua Decker

Bio

Joshua Decker is an attorney and advocate who has spent nearly two decades defending constitutional rights and civil liberties. He served as the Executive Director of the ACLU of Alaska, where he led the organization through major growth and won landmark victories protecting voting rights, reproductive freedom, the First Amendment, racial justice, and LGBTQ+ equality. Before that, he litigated complex constitutional and civil rights cases as a staff attorney at the ACLU of Alaska, practiced corporate law at Clifford Chance in New York, and represented rural, low-income clients across the spectrum of civil poverty law issues as a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee.

Joshua has tried hundreds of cases in federal and state trial, appellate, and administrative tribunals; he’s also testified before legislatures, lobbied federal and state officeholders, and spoken widely about the rule of law and government accountability.

Joshua earned his law and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Chicago, is pursuing a graduate degree at the University of California, Davis, and is licensed in California, New York, Tennessee, and Alaska. In his free time, he enjoys reading history and science fiction, traveling, and losing to his father-in-law in chess.