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… ADF Church & Ministry Alliance ADF Church Alliance is a legal membership program … exists to help best prepare and protect churches in the U.S. by providing affordable, religious liberty legal services. … to best prepare and protect them—even advocating on behalf of ministries in court if necessary and appropriate. Learn …

… Alliance Defending Freedom Non-profit organization Alliance Defending Freedom advocates for your right to freely … affirming and protecting religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and marriage and family.   … Alliance Defending …

… Senior Counsel Tim Garrison serves as senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Life, where he … 14 years and was U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri from 2018-2021. He personally prosecuted hundreds of … Advocacy award for his effectiveness at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Garrison is also a lieutenant …

… of the Center for Life and regulatory practice at Alliance Defending Freedom. Before joining ADF, Hawley … U.S. Supreme Court as well as numerous federal courts of appeals and state courts of last resort. She served as … as an associate professor of law at the University of Missouri. Her scholarship focuses primarily on federal courts …

… serves as senior counsel for regulatory litigation at Alliance Defending Freedom. Over the last decade, she has … Blake served as deputy solicitor general for the state of Missouri from 2017 to 2020 and as assistant solicitor general … to 2017. In these roles, she argued 26 federal and state appeals, including before the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals …

… Christian school. He has served as general counsel for the Missouri Baptist Convention and recently won three cases … he served three years as a Captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, (JAG) before entering private … his son Jonathan often volunteer as allied attorneys for Alliance Defending Freedom. They have filed amicus curiae …

… Senior Counsel Matt Bowman serves as senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, where he focuses on the impact of … and Michael A. Chagares, at the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and for Judge John M. Roll at the U.S. District Court for the …

… Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he is a key member of the … centers from being forced to refer for abortion. In Women’s Health Link v. City of Ft. Wayne, Ind. , Theriot defended … states of Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Virginia, Georgia, Missouri, Kansas, and Arizona. He is also a member of the …

… initiatives and special counsel to the president at Alliance Defending Freedom. He oversees ADF’s regulatory … to that, he served as deputy for civil litigation for Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, overseeing the state’s … Patrick E. Higginbotham on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Bangert is a member of the Philadelphia Society and …

… as legal counsel for the Center for Academic Freedom with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he defends the rights of … joining ADF, Spena served as Deputy Policy Director in the Missouri governor’s office where he oversaw the state’s regulatory reform …