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Alison (Ali) M. Kilmartin serves as senior counsel and chief of staff to CEO, President, and General Counsel Kristen Waggoner at Alliance Defending Freedom.

Rory Gray, Esq., serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he plays a strategic role on the Appellate Advocacy Team.

… including serving on Mississippi’s legal team in the case that overturned Roe v. Wade . Waggoner successfully …

… team in the historic Eweida and others v. United Kingdom case, where the court handed down a landmark ruling on …

… v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System  case in 1999, challenging the university’s requirement that … of Faith v. Board of Education of the City of New York  case. Lorence also defended the right of conscience in  Elane …

… argued Biden v. Nebraska before the U.S. Supreme Court, a case in which Nebraska and five other states challenged the … of Attorneys General for the brief he filed in that case. Before joining the Nebraska attorney general’s office …

… before the U.S. Supreme Court and argued Phillips’ case at the Colorado Court of Appeals. He was also the lead …

John Bursch is senior counsel and vice president of appellate advocacy with Alliance Defending Freedom.

… Supreme Court. In 1981, Mike was co-counsel in a landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Widmar v. Vincent (454 US … Church of Columbia, Mo. v. Comer , “the playground case.” In 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of … the Supreme Court in Carson v. Makin , and SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in favor of Christian parents in Maine who sought equal …

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 ...