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… Michael Farris is the former President & CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom. He served in this capacity from 2017 until 2022.    … Michael Farris … Former President & CEO …

… president at Alliance Defending Freedom and is a member of the Executive Team charged with leading the organization … prior to her current role, Eggleston served as chief of staff for the U.S. Legal Division and Communications. … Eggleston previously served at ADF from 2015 to 2017 as the director of professional development for the …

… where she assisted in upholding the First Amendment rights of pro-life organizations and advocates. Bongiorno earned her J.D. from University of Wisconsin Law and obtained her B.A., summa cum laude , in … and Spanish from Eastern Michigan University. She is a 2017 First Liberty Fellow. Bongiorno is admitted to the …

… Matt Bowman serves as senior counsel and director of regulatory practice for Alliance Defending Freedom, where he leads the team focusing on the impact of administrative law on religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and family. From 2017 to 2020, Bowman was a senior executive service appointee …

… 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 … cum laude from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2017, where she served as an editor on the Indiana Law …

… John Bursch is senior counsel and vice president of appellate advocacy with Alliance Defending Freedom. Bursch … position. Bursch served as solicitor general for the state of Michigan from 2011-2013. He also worked for a large … on appeal. He was inducted into the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and serves as a member of the American …

… with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he is a key member of the Center for Life Team working to defend pro-life speech and protect medical rights of conscience. Since joining Alliance Defending Freedom in … of $1.2 million dollars. Theriot also co-authored the 2017 law review article, Free to Do No Harm: Conscience …

… Michael Whitehead has nearly 50 years of experience as a Kansas City trial attorney defending … Widmar v. Vincent (454 US 263), establishing the right of Christian students to “equal access” to student union … of Columbia, Mo. v. Comer , “the playground case.” In 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Mike’s …

… to neutralize mounting corporate hostility to people of faith and to encourage corporations to respect free … Freedom Team, defending the First Amendment freedoms of college students and student organizations on university … Before joining ADF in 2019, Ross worked at the Law Office of Scott D. Bergthold where he represented cities and …

… Advocacy Team. In that role, he represents ADF clients of all stripes at the appellate level, preserving lower-court … French teacher. Schandevel also was on the team of attorneys who successfully represented the Thomas More Law … Court. And he regularly represents clients in friend-of-the-court briefs filed in state and federal appellate …