Kate Anderson

Kate Anderson serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where she is the director of the Center for Parental Rights. In this role, she leads the team working to ensure schools respect the role of parents in directing the upbringing, education, and health care of their children.

Anderson’s legal work centers on protecting the fundamental rights of parents from harmful government policies that secretly transition children to the opposite sex at school, withhold vital information from parents, or blatantly disregard their express wishes concerning their children’s health and well-being. Anderson, along with allied attorneys, successfully defended parents in Wisconsin and her team is engaged in many other states and courts protecting families.

Prior to that, her litigation efforts focused on protecting small business owners’ freedom of speech and religion so they could operate according to their beliefs, without fear of government punishment. She successfully defended a farmer in Country Mill Farms v. City of East Lansing, a creative professional’s pre-enforcement challenge in 303 Creative v. Elenis, a funeral home, and a women’s shelter.

Prior to joining ADF in 2015, Anderson was an associate attorney with Ellis, Li & McKinstry, PLLC, in Seattle, where she litigated both civil and criminal cases. Anderson obtained her law degree magna cum laude in 2009 from Gonzaga University School of Law, where she served on the Gonzaga Law Review. Anderson is admitted to the state bars of Arizona and Washington, the U.S. Supreme Court, and several federal district and appellate courts.