Nicholas Merrill

Nicholas Merrill
Nicholas Merrill in 2010
Born	New York, New York, U.S.
Education	Hampshire College
Occupation	Executive Director of The Calyx Institute

Nicholas Merrill is an American system administrator, computer programmer, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Calyx Internet Access, an Internet and hosted service provider founded in 1995, and of the non-profit Calyx Institute. He was the first person to file a constitutional challenge against the National Security Letters statute in the USA PATRIOT Act and consequently the first person to have a National Security Letter gag order completely lifted.^[1]