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… and as chief of staff and then deputy assistant secretary for policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for … Kilmartin was a trial and appellate litigator in Big Law for just under a decade, including in the U.S. Supreme … laude and was first in her class at Penn State Law. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West …

… Initiatives. Before joining ADF, Vrdolyak served as a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Portland, Oregon. Vrdolyak earned her J.D. from Notre Dame Law School … from the University of Notre Dame in 2016. She is a 2017 Blackstone Fellow. She is a member of the state bar of …

… joining ADF in 2018, Mr. Brooks worked with the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore for 25 years, 19 of those as a partner in the litigation department. In 2017, he took early retirement from Cravath in order to …

… Freedom, Sears led all strategic initiatives from 1993-2017. In his 23 years at the helm, he built an ADF team … also funded more than 3,000 grants and legal projects for allied lawyers and organizations. Beginning with the … resulted in the graduation of more than 1,800 outstanding law students—representing 227 schools and 21 countries—from …

… of litigation, with a primary focus on religious liberty, free speech, student privacy, conscience rights of creative …  (2018),  Masterpiece Cakeshop (2018),  Trinity Lutheran  (2017),  Hobby Lobby/Conestoga Wood  (2015), as well as other … Concerned Women for America, and the American Center for Law and Justice. Lorence earned a J.D. from the University of …

… Neal Hardin serves as Web Manager & Writer for Alliance Defending Freedom in the organization's … Advocates for Faith and Freedom, and his personal blog, the Religion and Politics Blog . … Neal Hardin … Web Manager & Writer … Neal Hardin …

… Cochran v. City of Atlanta , he defended Chief Cochran’s free speech rights from government censorship, receiving a … of $1.2 million dollars. Theriot also co-authored the 2017 law review article, Free to Do No Harm: Conscience …

… litigation group focuses on federal administrative law’s impact on religious freedom and the sanctity of life. … to Texas laws and claims against state officials. For example, Thompson defended numerous challenges to Texas … W. Mosman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. She also was an associate at an international law …

… Julie Marie Blake serves as senior counsel for regulatory litigation at Alliance Defending Freedom. Over … as deputy solicitor general for the state of Missouri from 2017 to 2020 and as assistant solicitor general for the state … cases, including Town of Greece v. Galloway . Following law school, she served as a law clerk for Judge Paul J. …

… Tucker serves as senior counsel and director of the Center for Christian Ministries with Alliance Defending Freedom. He … under the First Amendment. Tucker began his work at ADF in 2017, defending the conscience rights of Christian business … practice for over 16 years with a litigation boutique law firm in San Antonio, Texas, eight of those as a partner. …