Daniel J. Canon is a civil rights lawyer, teacher, writer, and educator based primarily in Indiana and Kentucky. He is a professor of law at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law and practices with Saeed & Little, LLP. He has argued before the 6th and 7th circuit courts of appeals, the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and the Kentucky Supreme Court,and has served as counsel all over the country in cases involving the rights of incarcerated people, wrongful convictions, abuse and overreach by law enforcement, academic freedom, employment discrimination, and more. Dan was lead counsel for the Kentucky plaintiffs in the landmark Supreme Court case of Obergefell v. Hodges, counsel for the plaintiffs in the pioneering Kentucky and Indiana marriage equality cases of Bourke v. Beshear, Love v. Beshear, and Love v. Pence, counsel for Miller v. Davis (highly publicized case in which plaintiffs were refused marriage licenses in Rowan County, Kentucky), and counsel for the protesters in Nwanguma v. Trump. His writing has been featured in numerous publications, including The Washington Post, The National Law Journal, Above the Law, Salon, Slate, and Louisville's LEO Weekly. He has been quoted and profiled extensively in Time, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Nightline, The New York Times, and many other national and international news sources. He is currently producing a series of short documentaries called Midwesticism, which profiles activists in Indiana and surrounding areas. His book entitled PLEADING OUT: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class, is now available.