# Celina Stewart Chief executive of the **[[League of Women Voters]]** of the United States, a role she took up on **August 5, 2024**. She had been the organization's **Chief Counsel and Senior Director of Advocacy and Litigation since 2018**, making her a litigator by background rather than a communications or development hire — which matters for an organization whose main instrument against voting restrictions is the lawsuit. ## Why she appears here The League is the oldest nonpartisan civic organization in American voting-rights work, and its chief executive is one of the few voices on the subject who cannot easily be characterized as partisan. That gives her assessments evidentiary weight that a party official's would not have. In October 2026 she described the scale of the restrictions described at [[Voter Suppression]] in terms of her own experience of the field: > [!quote] Celina Stewart, October 2026 > "In 17 years of working on voting rights, I have never seen such a widespread and coordinated effort to restrict access." The claim is a judgment, not a measurement, and is recorded as hers. The measurable part sits alongside it: by the Brennan Center's count, 22 states have enacted 47 restrictive voting laws since the 2024 election. She also led the League's response when [[Meta]] disabled the [[No Kings Coalition]]'s organizing account during the October 17, 2026 day of action, framing it as a question of platform transparency and accountability rather than of bias. See [[No Kings March (October 2026)]]. ## See Also - [[League of Women Voters]] — the organization she leads - [[Voter Suppression]] · [[Felony Disenfranchisement]] - [[No Kings March (October 2026)]]