Rep. Deborah Ross is an American attorney and Democratic politician from North Carolina. She began her career as a civil rights lawyer, helping pass the South’s first anti–racial profiling law and working on juvenile justice reforms. She later served as State Director of the ACLU of North Carolina before entering electoral politics. Ross served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2003 to 2013, where she focused on voting rights, education, and public safety. After an unsuccessful U.S. Senate run in 2016, she was elected to Congress in 2020. In the U.S. House, she has worked on voting rights, clean energy policy, judicial ethics, and healthcare access, and has passed multiple bills signed into law.