Simon Heller

Legal Director

Simon is Legal Director and responsible for the Judicial Selection Project and Justice Watch projects, and Alliance for Justice’s broader Access to Justice program.  Before coming to Alliance for Justice, Simon was a reproductive rights litigator at the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights, where he headed the domestic program.  He has argued cases before numerous federal appeals courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and has presented testimony both to the Congress and to several state legislative committees.  (J.D., Yale Law School; M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B.A., M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook)