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… Mallory Rechtenbach serves as legal counsel on the Parental Rights team at Alliance Defending Freedom. Rechtenbach earned her J.D., with highest distinction, from the University of Nebraska … was also commissioned as a Blackstone Fellow in 2019. Additionally, she has published two law review …

… at a large law firm in Washington, D.C. where she focused on intellectual property litigation. In that role, she gained experience with trial, depositions, discovery management, and motions practice. Dill received her J.D. in 2019 from Duke University School of Law, where she served as …

… as Senior Research Analyst at Alliance Defending Freedom with a focus on parental rights and advocacy strategy. She joined ADF in … also as an associate attorney at Smith & Pugh, PLC. From 2019 to 2021, she was an active and outspoken parent advocate …

… served as founder of Alliance Defending Freedom, building on his experience as longtime leader of the organization to … projects for allied lawyers and organizations. Beginning with the launch of ADF in 1994, Sears provided strategic leadership in the training of 1,923 lawyers from 45 countries through the one-of-a-kind …

… Bangert achieved in the Janvey v. Maldonado case as the #1 verdict in the securities category for 2015-2019, and The National Law Journal ranked it in its “Top 100 … he clerked for the Honorable Patrick E. Higginbotham on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Bangert is a member of …

… Defending Freedom, where he leads the team focusing on the impact of administrative law on religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and family. From … the lower federal courts, a case where the Supreme Court later protected the free speech of pro-life pregnancy …

… Roger G. Brooks serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he is a key member of … for Conscience Initiatives. Mr. Brooks focuses his efforts on protecting freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, … from 2002 through 2011. Mr. Brooks is a member of the state bars of New York and North Carolina. He has been …

… a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he has served on active duty or in the reserves since 2003. He deployed to … combat in Afghanistan as Chief of Operational Law for the I Marine Expeditionary Force in 2014. Garrison later served … Staff College. Garrison graduated from Drury University with a bachelor of arts, magna cum laude , in political …

… Defending Freedom. Over the last decade, she has been on the front lines of high-profile, precedent-setting cases … country. Blake served as deputy solicitor general for the state of Missouri from 2017 to 2020 and as assistant … she served as a law clerk for Judge Paul J. Kelly, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She …

… Chris Schandevel serves as senior counsel on Alliance Defending Freedom’s Appellate Advocacy Team. In … represents clients in friend-of-the-court briefs filed in state and federal appellate courts and in the U.S. Supreme … as a Blackstone Fellow in 2010 after an internship with ADF’s Center for Life. Schandevel earned his B.A. in …