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… (Ali) M. Kilmartin serves as senior counsel and chief of staff to CEO, President, and General Counsel Kristen Waggoner at Alliance Defending Freedom. Kilmartin also directs the Grants … in Big Law for just under a decade, including in the U.S. Supreme Court on several occasions. In 2014, Kilmartin …

… Julia Payne serves as legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Life. In this role, … the sanctity of life by litigating both beginning and end of life issues. Before joining ADF, Payne worked at the … issues. Payne is a member of the bars of the Indiana Supreme Court, the northern and southern districts of …

… Chris Schandevel serves as senior counsel on Alliance Defending Freedom’s Appellate Advocacy Team. In that role, he represents ADF clients of all stripes at the appellate level, preserving lower-court … represented the Thomas More Law Center in the U.S. Supreme Court. And he regularly represents clients in …

… Kevin Theriot serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he is a key member of the Center for Life Team working to defend pro-life speech … and religion. In NIFLA v. Becerra he was part of the Supreme Court team that protected California pregnancy …

… Caleb Dalton serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he plays a key role at the … clients seeking to speak freely on campus without fear of unconstitutional government censorship. In this role, he … Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission at the U.S. Supreme Court. He has also been appointed special assistant …

… Morrow Hawley serves as senior counsel and vice president of the Center for Life and Regulatory Practice at Alliance Defending Freedom. Before joining ADF, Hawley … D.C. Hawley has litigated extensively before the U.S. Supreme Court as well as numerous federal courts of appeals …

… Jordan Lorence serves as senior counsel and director of strategic engagement with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he plays a key role with … students and professors. Lorence argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the precedent-setting  Southworth v. Board …

… Michael Whitehead has nearly 50 years of experience as a Kansas City trial attorney defending … churches and ministries from trial courts to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1981, Mike was co-counsel in a landmark … his son Jonathan often volunteer as allied attorneys for Alliance Defending Freedom. They have filed amicus curiae …

… serves as senior counsel for regulatory litigation at Alliance Defending Freedom. Over the last decade, she has been on the front lines of high-profile, precedent-setting cases challenging federal … National Association of Attorneys General for her U.S. Supreme Court advocacy. Before entering government service in …

… as senior counsel with the Center for Parental Rights at Alliance Defending Freedom where he safeguards parents’ … rights to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children. Before joining ADF in 2022, Wagner served … states in an unclaimed-property dispute before the U.S. Supreme Court, and defending Arkansas’s pro-life laws before …