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… Center for Life. In this role, she defends the sanctity of life by litigating both beginning and end of life issues. Before joining ADF, Payne worked at the … 7th Circuit, the Southern District of Indiana, and Indiana state courts. Payne graduated cum laude from Indiana …

… A. Cortman serves as senior counsel and vice president of U.S. litigation with Alliance Defending Freedom. He has … hundreds of constitutional law cases in federal and state court. He has argued in the U.S. Supreme Court in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer , securing a 7-2 victory that overturned Missouri’s …

… joining ADF in 2024, Sterett was a partner at the law firm of Dalton & Tomich and oversaw the firm’s Illinois office. In … as lead counsel for nurse Sandra Rojas in her landmark case under the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act. The case established an important precedent for healthcare …

… Center for Life, where he litigates across the spectrum of matters involving constitutional freedoms and the sanctity of life. Previously, Garrison was a partner at Husch … support for ADF’s litigation in College of the Ozarks v. Biden . Garrison was a federal prosecutor for 14 years and …

… with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he is a key member of the Center for Conscience Initiatives. Mr. Brooks focuses … a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights … from 2002 through 2011. Mr. Brooks is a member of the state bars of New York and North Carolina. He has been …

… Tedesco serves as senior counsel and senior vice president of corporate engagement for Alliance Defending Freedom. In … cake artist Jack Phillips in  Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission before the U.S. Supreme Court and argued Phillips’ case at the Colorado Court of Appeals. He was also the lead …

… rights to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children. Before joining ADF in 2022, Wagner served the state of Arkansas as deputy solicitor general. There he represented Arkansas at all levels of the state and federal judiciary, including leading thirty states …

… Alliance Defending Freedom, where he defends the rights of students, professors, and organizations to speak, … in the Missouri governor’s office where he oversaw the state’s regulatory reform efforts and worked to approve … protecting the unborn. Spena graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2016, where he served as an …

… William Pew was a founder of Alliance Defending Freedom, serving on its governing board of directors from its inception until his passing in 1997. … in Canada, he came to the United States at the outbreak of World War II to volunteer for the United States Navy. He …

… Michael Whitehead has nearly 50 years of experience as a Kansas City trial attorney defending … Supreme Court. In 1981, Mike was co-counsel in a landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Widmar v. Vincent (454 US 263), establishing the right of Christian …