Chad Dunn

Chad Wilson Dunn (Born November 26, 1976) is an American trial and appellate Attorney. Dunn is currently a named partner in Brazil & Dunn, LLP, and is the Director of Litigation for the UCLA Voting Rights Project in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Education
Dunn received his bachelor’s degree in Government from the University of Texas at Austin and his J.D. from South Texas College of Law Houston. and a verdict against a Houston Independent School District Trustee and associated construction contractors for RICO Act violations.
Dunn's has also represented plaintiffs in a Title IX suit against Baylor University, against prison conditions, and police misconduct cases.
Voting rights work
Dunn was one of the trial attorneys in the three-judge federal court case in Washington D.C. concerning Texas’ 2011 state house, senate, and congressional redistricting plans. Dunn was also one of the attorneys in the three-judge federal court case in San Antonio concerning the same redistricting plans.
Dunn served as the lead trial lawyer in the three judge federal case in Washington D.C. concerning Texas’ SB 14, where the Court denied Texas to implement the law. Dunn filed the second federal court challenge to SB 14 in federal court in Corpus Christi, Veasey v. Texas, which ultimately resulted in the law being struck down. Dunn argued the case the three times it was considered by the Fifth Circuit and served as counsel of record in the state’s appeals to the Supreme Court.
In 2006, Dunn filed a case that went to the U.S. Supreme Court under the qualifications clause to the U.S. Constitution that prevented then Congressperson Tom Delay from unlawfully withdrawing from the ballot and picking a successor. In 2008, Dunn represented the Texas Democratic Party against a challenge filed by Dennis Kucinich and singer Willie Nelson to the Texas Democratic Party’s requirement that person could not appear on the Texas Democratic Party primary ballot for the office of President if they would not promise to support the eventual nominee. The case later when on to win at the district court, at the Fifth Circuit and at the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 2008, Dunn represented the Texas Democratic Party, in which the Texas Supreme Court affirmed Texas' campaign finance disclosure laws.
In March of 2019, Dunn was invited by the U.S. House Committee on Administration to give testimony on voting rights issues. In 2019, Dunn was one of the lead trial attorneys who obtained a federal court injunction preventing Texas from unlawfully purging the voter rolls of 98,000, mostly naturalized immigrant citizens. Dunn was named as the Director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project in August of 2019.<ref name="auto"/>
Awards and recognition
Dunn was named by Texas Lawyer as a finalist for Attorney of the Year in 2016, was named one of Texas Lawyer’s top 25 attorneys under 40 in 2013, and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates.<ref name="auto"/>

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