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Valerie Londono

Senior Counsel, Church and Ministry Alliance Deputy Director

Valerie Londono serves as senior counsel and deputy director of the Church and Ministry Alliance with Alliance Defending Freedom. In this role, she oversees a group of attorneys and participates in the leadership and overall direction of the CMA program, which serves as a resource to ministries by providing them with the day-to-day operational legal advice they need to fulfill their religious missions.

Prior to joining ADF in 2022, Londono served as assistant general counsel for a Florida public school district. In addition, for nearly 10 years she served on the in-house legal counsel team for Cru (formerly known as Campus Crusade for Christ), the world’s largest missions-sending organization dedicated to holding doors open for the Gospel. In that role, she gained extensive corporate and transactional experience in the context of an evangelistic global ministry active in 191 nations.

Londono earned dual bachelor’s degrees, summa cum laude, in English and Magazine Journalism from the University of Florida, and her law degree, magna cum laude, from Regent University School of Law, where she served as the executive editor of the law review and studied international human rights in Strasbourg, France. She was an ADF Blackstone Fellow in 2008. After law school, she clerked for two federal judges on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

Londono enjoys teaching nonprofit law as an adjunct professor for Regent Law. Licensed to practice law in Florida, she currently resides in Orlando with her husband and three active boys.