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… Don Ziel Vice President of Church & Ministry Alliance and Assistant General Counsel … Church and Ministry Alliance and assistant general counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom. In this role, he serves as … structure. Prior to his position at Young Life, Ziel spent 12 years in the General Counsel’s office at Cru (formerly …

… serves as legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Legislative Advocacy. He focuses on legislation impacting religious liberty at the state level and works out of ADF’s Ashburn, VA office. Prior to joining ADF, Chafuen …

… for Alliance Defending Freedom, where he is a key member of the Center for Academic Freedom. Before joining ADF, Hoffmann … for the Eleventh Circuit and served as an associate at Jones Day. Hoffmann earned his J.D. from the University of …

… Andrew D. Graham Senior Counsel, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Strategic Affairs Andrew D. Graham … Vice President of Academic Affairs and Strategic Affairs at Alliance Defending Freedom. In his role, he designs ADF’s … (BODA), a statewide independent adjudicatory body of 12 lawyers concerned with legal ethics, disciplinary …

… Senior Counsel Phil Sechler serves as senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, where he focuses on academic … trial experience in courts around the country on a variety of complex litigation matters. Sechler spent most of his … Mason University and at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he continues to teach a course on Professional …

… with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he was a member of the Center for Christian Ministries. Schmitt advanced litigation … the Seventh Circuit and litigated as an associate attorney at Ice Miller LLP in Indianapolis. He also served as an …

… ADF in 2017 Michael Farris is the former President & CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom. He served in this capacity … from Western Washington State College magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in political science, followed by a Juris … that successfully lobbied Congress for the passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. He also has …

… joined ADF in 2023 Lisa Fullerton is the President and CEO of A Novel Idea, dba Auntie Anne’s Pretzels and Cinnabon, which … to work. Lisa has also been a small business advocate at the city and state level working with legislators to …

… Gregory S. Baylor Senior Counsel, Director of the Center for Religious Schools Gregory S. Baylor serves … the Fifth Circuit. He practiced labor and employment law at two large international law firms for three years before …

… Legal Counsel Logan Spena serves as legal counsel for the Center for Academic Freedom with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he defends the rights of students, professors, and organizations to speak, … an editor on the Virginia Law Review. Spena earned his B.A. in Government: Political Theory from Patrick Henry College …