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… John Bursch Senior Counsel, Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch is senior counsel and vice … president of appellate advocacy with Alliance Defending Freedom. Bursch has argued 12 U.S. Supreme Court cases and … cases, and he has successfully litigated six matters with at least $1 billion at stake. A recent study concluded that …

… Julia Payne serves as legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Life. In this role, she defends the sanctity of life by litigating both beginning and end of life issues. Before joining ADF, Payne worked at the Office of the Indiana Attorney General as a deputy …

… Kiefer serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where she is a key member of the Center for Conscience Initiatives. When she joined ADF … has testified before Congress and successfully advocated at the grassroots level. As an ADF commentator, she regularly …

… strategic initiatives and special counsel to the president at Alliance Defending Freedom. He oversees ADF’s regulatory practice, government … general and deputy for legal counsel in the office of the Texas attorney general. In those roles, he oversaw the …

… Schandevel serves as senior counsel on Alliance Defending Freedom’s Appellate Advocacy Team. In that role, he represents ADF clients of all stripes at the appellate level, preserving lower-court victories and …

… G. Brooks serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he is a key member of the Center for Conscience Initiatives. Mr. Brooks focuses … a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights …

… Wilkinson serves as law clerk for Alliance Defending Freedom. He is an English-Qualified attorney and a specialist … involving fundamental freedoms before the European Court of Human Rights and the Courts of England and Wales. He has … from the University of Nottingham, which included one year at the University of Texas at Austin. … Laurence Wilkinson …

… ADF in 2017 Michael Farris is the former President & CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom. He served in this capacity from 2017 until 2022.  … eight federal circuit courts of appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court, where in 2018 he successfully argued NIFLA v. …

… as senior counsel with the Center for Parental Rights at Alliance Defending Freedom where he safeguards parents’ rights to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children. Before joining ADF in 2022, Wagner served …

… Senior Counsel Phil Sechler serves as senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, where he focuses on academic and religious freedom. … trial experience in courts around the country on a variety of complex litigation matters. Sechler spent most of his …