Andrew Spangenberg
Director of Allied Legal Affairs
Andrew J. Spangenberg serves as director of Allied Legal Affairs with Alliance Defending Freedom.
Spangenberg leads the Allied Legal Affairs team, which is dedicated to recruiting, engaging with, and strategically deploying more than 4,700 attorneys aligned with ADF’s mission to protect and promote life, religious liberty, free speech, marriage and family, and parental rights. Attorneys in ADF’s network have played important roles in hundreds of precedent-setting matters and many victories at the U.S. Supreme Court, including serving as lead or co-counsel alongside ADF attorneys in several Supreme Court cases.
Spangenberg also works with the Grants & Funding Program which, to date, has awarded approximately $55 million in grant funds to thousands of legal projects and cases, many of which have set national and multinational precedents.
Before joining ADF, Spangenberg worked in Big Law gaining extensive experience in high-stakes litigation, including developing and leading strategies and mass coordination in high-profile matters.
Spangenberg earned his J.D. magna cum laude and was top of his class at Penn State Law. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.