Ari Savitzky

Ari Savitzky is a Senior Staff Attorney in the ACLU Voting Rights Project, where he litigates voting and democracy matters across the country, including in Georgia, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania.  

Before joining the ACLU, Ari was an Assistant Solicitor General for the State of New York. Before that, he practiced at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where he was a Counsel in the firm’s Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation group. Ari also served as a judicial law clerk to Hon. Raymond J. Lohier, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Hon. John G. Koeltl of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Ari has served as lead trial counsel in multiple federal redistricting trials and argued around twenty appeals in state and federal appellate courts.  Ari has filed over twenty briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court on a wide range of constitutional and statutory matters, including as counsel of record. 

Ari received his J.D. magna cum laude from NYU School of Law, where he was an editor for the NYU Law Review. Ari holds an AB in History from Brown University.