Nabih H. Ayad Esq. joined the Michigan Civil Rights Commission in December 2008. He is the Chair for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, a position he has held for the past four years. Ayad received his Juris Doctorate from the Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University and holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting from Wayne State University.

Ayad has been recognized as a tireless crusader for civil rights and particularly for his commitment to combating discrimination and injustice against Arab Americans after the 9-11 attacks. He has been at the forefront of defending the civil rights and civil liberties of Arab Americans in some of the nation's most ground breaking court cases. He is credited with having the only Federal terrorism case dismissed at the Preliminary Exam stage in the U.S. District Court in Detroit and was the Attorney for ADC on ADC v. Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld in 2006.

Recently, he filed a Federal Court lawsuit against a city judge who dismissed a Muslim African American woman's case for refusing to remove her religious veil before a male judge. This case sets precedent as the first of its kind in the entire country.

Ayad is an appointee of the Advisory Council on Arab and Chaldean Affairs in the State of Michigan. He is the Chair of the Board for the American-Arab Center for Civil and Human Rights, a member of the ACLU Lawyers Committee for the State of Michigan and is also a member of the NAACP Legal Redress Committee. Attorney Nabih Ayad has received numerous awards and honors, most recently the ACLU 2006 Bernard Gottfried Award for defending civil liberties and upholding our Bill of Rights.