Deqa Dhalac (born c. 1968 or 1969)[1] is a member of the Maine House of Representatives for the 120th District.

[1] Due to the precipitating events leading to the Somali Civil War, Dhalac fled in 1990, to Rome on a flight intended to head to Libya.

[1] In 1992, she married Abdi Farah, a Somali businessman from Atlanta, whose family had been close with her own, and began activism to get immigrants to become citizens and register to vote.

In 2005, she moved to Lewiston, Maine, with her family but without her husband, who stayed to take care of his business in Atlanta but visits them frequently.

[1] In 2018, Dhalac became the first African-American and the first Muslim elected to the South Portland city council.