Kellie Fiedorek
Senior Counsel, Government Affairs Director
Kellie M. Fiedorek serves as senior counsel and government affairs director for Alliance Defending Freedom, where she is a member of the Strategic Affairs team. In this role, Fiedorek brings over a decade of experience working with the public sector to grow, equip, and engage a broad alliance committed to protecting the rule of law and the Constitution.
Fiedorek is responsible for building strategic relationships and engaging leaders throughout the public sector and broader alliance. She also helps to direct and implement the team’s vision to engage allies in ADF’s advocacy efforts and provide career development to help them secure positions of leadership throughout the legal system. She serves a key role working on a number of the organization’s leadership and training programs, including the Summit on Religious Liberty, the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, Legal Academy, and Policy Allies Workshop.
Previously, Fiedorek authored federal and state legislation and advised members of Congress, governors, state attorneys general, state legislators, and policy organizations on how to protect First Amendment freedoms, the sanctity of life, and the right to privacy. She has testified before state legislatures across the country. From 2012 to 2015, she litigated important cases advancing religious liberty and marriage, including authoring and coordinating amicus briefs for pivotal U.S. Supreme Court, federal court, and state court cases.
Fiedorek earned her Juris Doctor in 2009 from Ave Maria School of Law and is a Blackstone Fellow from the class of 2008. She is a member of the Florida and District of Columbia bars and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and multiple federal appellate courts.