A.J. Stewart

A.J. Stewart serves as senior counsel for the Center for Free Speech at Alliance Defending Freedom, where he works to defend free speech and combat global censorship and coercion.

Stewart began his career as an assistant attorney general for the state of Oklahoma, where he litigated a variety of constitutional and civil rights cases in state and federal courts. He later served as a law clerk for the Honorable Joe L. Heaton and the Honorable Bernard M. Jones, of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. He then joined the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, where he prosecuted federal capital murder cases.

Stewart earned his bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma Christian University, graduating summa cum laude. He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where he served as the Executive Editor of the American Indian Law Review.