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… worked on numerous pro-life efforts at the local, state, and national levels. In 2017, with the help of ADF, Bernadette took legal action against a Fresno State professor for leading a group of students in defacing her student group’s university-approved, …

… aligned with ADF’s mission to protect and promote life, religious liberty, free speech, marriage and family, … of the Secretary, and then as deputy assistant secretary for policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for … J.D. summa cum laude and was first in her class at Penn State Law. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, …

… Matt Sharp Senior Counsel, Director of Center for Legislative Advocacy Matt Sharp serves as senior counsel … of the Center for Legislative Advocacy and focuses on state and local legislative matters. Since joining ADF in … and free speech. He has won cases upholding the rights of students to form religious clubs, invite classmates to …

… served as lead counsel in cases such as  Queens College Students for Life v. City University of New York Board of … of Houston—Clear Lake , and Apodaca v. White (California State University) successfully representing students in … of Kendall-Hunt’s textbook, Moot Court: Making Your Case and Pleasing the Court . Dalton has appeared on national …

… and the First Amendment freedoms of public university students and professors. Lorence argued before the U.S. … v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System  case in 1999, challenging the university’s requirement that … Lamb’s Chapel  (1993), and  Witters v. Washington State Department of Services for the Blind  (1985). Lorence …

… also funded more than 3,000 grants and legal projects for allied lawyers and organizations. Beginning with the … in the graduation of more than 1,800 outstanding law students—representing 227 schools and 21 countries—from the … He has helped fashion the language for numerous state and federal laws and has testified before committees of …

… Counsel Erica Steinmiller-Perdomo serves as legal counsel for the Center for Life at Alliance Defending Freedom. Before joining ADF, … served as a criminal prosecutor in the Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office where she tried more than a dozen …

… Payne Legal Counsel Julia Payne serves as legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Life. In this role, she defends the sanctity of life by … 7th Circuit, the Southern District of Indiana, and Indiana state courts. Payne graduated cum laude from Indiana …

… represents clients in friend-of-the-court briefs filed in state and federal appellate courts and in the U.S. Supreme … the Virginia attorney general’s office, Schandevel clerked for the Honorable Stephen R. McCullough on the Court of … he founded a student organization called Advocates for Life at Virginia Law. He also completed ADF’s Blackstone …

… Warner Senior Counsel Jake Warner serves as senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom’s Appellate Team. Since … teams arguing cases such as Masterpiece Cakeshop Inc. v. Elenis and Telescope Media Group v. Lucero . He has also … the court entered a preliminary injunction that stopped state officials from discriminating against a student based …