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… been on the front lines of high-profile, precedent-setting cases challenging federal overreach in courts across the … as deputy solicitor general for the state of Missouri from 2017 to 2020 and as assistant solicitor general for the state of …

… Defending Freedom’s Appellate Team. Since joining ADF in 2017, Warner has focused primarily on protecting the freedom … punishment. He has served on the litigation teams arguing cases such as Masterpiece Cakeshop Inc. v. Elenis and … Circuit, where the court entered a preliminary injunction that stopped state officials from discriminating against a …

… M. Kilmartin serves as senior counsel and chief of staff to CEO, President, and General Counsel Kristen Waggoner at … million in grant funds to thousands of legal projects and cases, many of which have set national and multinational … in Big Law for just under a decade, including in the U.S. Supreme Court on several occasions. In 2014, Kilmartin …

…  case in 1999, challenging the university’s requirement that forced unwilling students to contribute to campus … Supreme Court. Lorence has worked on ADF’s Supreme Court cases, such as  NIFLA  (2018),  Masterpiece Cakeshop (2018),  Trinity Lutheran  (2017),  Hobby Lobby/Conestoga Wood  (2015), as well as other …

… general in the office of the Texas attorney general. In that role, she represented the state and its officials on … matters, including defending constitutional challenges to Texas laws and claims against state officials. For … general, Thompson presented oral argument in numerous cases, including 12 arguments before the U.S. Court of …

… Writer for Alliance Defending Freedom in the organization's Scottsdale, Arizona, office. He holds a bachelor's … Advocates for Faith and Freedom, and his personal blog, the Religion and Politics Blog . … Neal Hardin … Web Manager & Writer … Neal Hardin …

… and parental rights, and defending those who believe that the biological reality of male and female matters. He … defending the right of Christian adoption agencies to operate in accordance with the teachings of their faith; … 19 of those as a partner in the litigation department. In 2017, he took early retirement from Cravath in order to …

… Freedom, Sears led all strategic initiatives from 1993-2017. In his 23 years at the helm, he built an ADF team committed to a comprehensive legal strategy that includes training, funding, and legal advocacy—resulting … leadership, ADF attorneys won more than three out of four cases in which they participated and successfully defended …

… defending churches and ministries from trial courts to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1981, Mike was co-counsel in a … of Columbia, Mo. v. Comer , “the playground case.” In 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Mike’s … for the Missouri Baptist Convention and recently won three cases restoring three Missouri Baptist agencies to …

… Defending Freedom. He oversees all litigation efforts to maintain and defend the constitutionally protected freedom … under the First Amendment. Tucker began his work at ADF in 2017, defending the conscience rights of Christian business owners against policies that would force them to compromise their beliefs under …