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… Don Ziel serves as vice president of the Church and Ministry … Defending Freedom. In this role, he serves as counsel to ADF as it carries out its organizational mission and leads … an alliance of church and ministry members to fulfill their religious missions without unnecessary legal barriers. …

… defending the right of Christian adoption agencies to operate in accordance with the teachings of their faith; … to direct life-critical therapeutic choices for their own children; and working to ensure that girls and women have … 19 of those as a partner in the litigation department. In 2017, he took early retirement from Cravath in order to …

… Advocates for Faith and Freedom, and his personal blog, the Religion and Politics Blog . … Neal Hardin … Web Manager & Writer … Neal Hardin …

… as deputy solicitor general for the state of Missouri from 2017 to 2020 and as assistant solicitor general for the state of West Virginia from 2013 to 2017. In these roles, she argued 26 federal and state …

… defending churches and ministries from trial courts to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1981, Mike was co-counsel in a … of Columbia, Mo. v. Comer , “the playground case.” In 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Mike’s … Law Firm, LLC. Mike and his wife, Jan, have three children and eleven grandchildren and make their home in …

… on his experience as longtime leader of the organization to strengthen alliances, forge new relationships, and develop … Freedom, Sears led all strategic initiatives from 1993-2017. In his 23 years at the helm, he built an ADF team … attorneys won more than three out of four cases in which they participated and successfully defended marriage as the …

… Rehnquist Fellow at Cooper & Kirk PLLC.  He then went on to clerk for the Honorable Amul R. Thapar and the Honorable … his J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 2017, where he graduated first in his class.  He also served …  He completed ADF’s Blackstone Legal Fellowship in 2017.  Prior to law school, Barnett earned a Bachelor of Arts …

… Increase (MI), a 501c3 organization whose mission is to equip nonprofits, givers, and churches to multiply their collective Kingdom impact so that lives are transformed … to protect the upbringing, care, and education of their children. A member of the Alliance Defending Freedom board of …

… Before joining ADF, Vrdolyak served as a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals … from the University of Notre Dame in 2016. She is a 2017 Blackstone Fellow. She is a member of the state bar of …

… M. Kilmartin serves as senior counsel and chief of staff to CEO, President, and General Counsel Kristen Waggoner at … Kilmartin also directs the Grants & Funding Program which, to date, has awarded approximately $55 million in grant funds to thousands of legal projects and cases, many of which have …