Terry Ao Minnis

Terry Ao Minnis is the Vice President of the census and voting programs for Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC. 

Mrs. Minnis served as a leading authority on census campaigns in 2010 and 2020 and co-chairs the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights’ Census Task Force. Additionally, she has been a part of Census Bureau advisory committees since 2002, including most recently, as a member of the 2030 Census Advisory Committee.

One of the key leaders in campaigns to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act in 2006 and to address problematic Supreme Court voting decisions, Mrs. Minnis has published on voting rights, testified in Congress and has been counsel on numerous voting rights cases. 

Mrs. Minnis was named one of the four living 2020 National Women’s History Alliance Honorees: Valiant Women of the Vote and one of NOW’s 100 Sisters of Suffrage as part of their celebration of the centennial anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment. Most recently, Mrs. Minnis was awarded the Funders Committee for Civic Participation’s 2025 Legacy Award, recognizing unwavering commitment to the principles and practices that uphold American democracy and justice over the years.

Mrs. Minnis received her Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, from American University Washington College of Law and her bachelor’s degree in economics at the University of Chicago.