John Thorpe

John Thorpe serves as legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Parental Rights.

Before joining ADF, Thorpe was a partner at a Phoenix law firm where he led the appellate practice and worked on business litigation, political law and election law. He also spent three years as a public interest litigator at another non-profit, focusing on free speech, school choice and property rights. Before that, he clerked for the Hon. Bridget S. Bade on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for the Hon. Carolyn B. McHugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Thorpe graduated magna cum laude from Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. During law school, he served as Articles Editor on the Arizona State Law Journal and was a member of the Federalist Society and the Christian Legal Society. He is a 2016 Blackstone Fellow. Before law school, he graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science in economics and minors in Russian and political science.

Thorpe is admitted to practice in Arizona, as well as various federal district and appellate courts.