[2][3] From 1982 to 1999, Hair served as staff lawyer and, later, the director of the Washington, D.C. office of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund before founding Advancement Project.
[6] At Advancement Project, Hair managed a team of voting rights attorneys and helped oversee the organization's voter protection work.
Under Hair's direction, Advancement Project spearheaded litigation challenging voting restrictions, discriminatory electoral provisions and other civil rights violations across the nation.
The ruling removed preclearance of new, potentially problematic voting laws for several states that had historically used voter suppression tactics on communities of color.
[8][9] Under Hair's leadership, Advancement Project produced many reports on voter suppression, including What’s Wrong with This Picture?