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Sharon Supp serves as Senior Research Analyst at Alliance Defending Freedom

Lance has served Alliance Defending Freedom since 2013 and is currently the Senior Vice President of Development.

More than 30 years ago, Dr. James C. Dobson founded Focus on the Family to undergird Christian values for families in today’s world.

Mallory Rechtenbach serves as legal counsel on the Parental Rights team at Alliance Defending Freedom. Rechtenbach earned her J.D., with highest distinction, from the University of Nebraska College of Law and was selected for Order of the Coif. During law school, she served as Articles Editor for the Nebraska Law Review and as a research assistant to Professor Richard Duncan. Following law school, Rechtenbach completed fellowships at the Institute for Free Speech and ADF. Next, she clerked for the Honorable L. Steven Grasz on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Rechtenbach was ...

Mark Lippelmann serves as senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, where he is a key member of the Center for Christian Ministries. In this role, Lippelmann is focused on protecting the freedom of Christian ministries, schools, and churches to exercise their faith without interference. In his prior role at ADF, Lippelmann was responsible for the most advanced and complex litigation in support of pro-life laws. Prior to joining ADF, Lippelmann worked as an attorney for the U.S. Postal Service in Washington, D.C., where he focused on complex class action litigation before federal courts ...

Andrew J. Spangenberg serves as Director of Allied Legal Affairs with Alliance Defending Freedom. Spangenberg leads the Allied Legal Affairs team, which is dedicated to recruiting, engaging with, and strategically deploying more than 4,700 attorneys aligned with ADF’s mission to protect and promote life, religious liberty, free speech, marriage and family, and parental rights. Attorneys in ADF’s network have played important roles in hundreds of precedent-setting matters and many victories at the U.S. Supreme Court, including serving as lead or co-counsel alongside ADF attorneys in several ...

Emilie Kao serves as senior counsel and vice president of advocacy strategy for Alliance Defending Freedom.

Katie Vizzerra serves as senior counsel and director of Blackstone Alumni Relations at Alliance Defending Freedom, overseeing alumni of the Blackstone Legal Fellowship. Prior to that role, she served as legal counsel of student training and engagement overseeing the Areté Academy program, along with other student trainings including the Law School Prep Academy and Journalism Academy. Before joining ADF full-time in 2014, Vizzerra worked as associate counsel at Denali Sourcing Services negotiating contracts for one of the largest banks in the country. She also was a legal clerk at a boutique ...

Sierra Brown serves as legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom. She advises members of ADF’s Church and Ministry Alliance on issues involving their religious liberty and helps protect their constitutional rights. Prior to joining ADF, Brown was an associate with a top national firm where she litigated large complex commercial and employment disputes. Brown earned her bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in Journalism and Mass Communication from Arizona State University, and her law degree, cum laude, from ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. While in law school, she served as ...

Valerie Londono serves as senior counsel and deputy director of the Church and Ministry Alliance with Alliance Defending Freedom. In this role, she oversees a group of attorneys and participates in the leadership and overall direction of the CMA program, which serves as a resource to ministries by providing them with the day-to-day operational legal advice they need to fulfill their religious missions. Prior to joining ADF in 2022, Londono served as assistant general counsel for a Florida public school district. In addition, for nearly 10 years she served on the in-house legal counsel team for ...