Noah Smith-Drelich Staff Attorney

Noah Smith-Drelich is a Staff Attorney at the ACLU of South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wyoming.

Prior to joining the ACLU in 2017, Noah worked as a civil rights attorney on behalf of the no-DAPL movement at Standing Rock, and as an attorney at Korein Tillery, where he specialized in complex litigation. Noah also served as a law clerk to Judge Edmond E. Chang at the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and Judge Jay S. Bybee at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Noah received his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Stanford Law Review and Editor in Chief of the Stanford Law and Policy Review.  Noah also received an M.S. in Environment and Resources from Stanford University and a B.A. from Williams College.  Between college and law school, Noah taught middle and high school English on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and was an Adjunct Professor in Government at Oglala Lakota College.

Noah's favorite amendment is the Fourteenth Amendment because it applies the Bill of Rights to the states.