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… Lathan Watts serves as vice president of public affairs for Alliance Defending … crisis communications processes and plans. Prior to joining ADF, Watts spent nearly 20 years in various roles … and Texas Governor Rick Perry. He also served four years as a city councilman in Lewisville, Texas. He earned his …

… Neal Hardin serves as Web Manager & Writer for Alliance Defending Freedom in the … Advocates for Faith and Freedom, and his personal blog, the Religion and Politics Blog . … Neal Hardin … Web Manager & Writer … Neal Hardin …

… of litigation, with a primary focus on religious liberty, free speech, student privacy, conscience rights of creative … university’s requirement that forced unwilling students to contribute to campus activist groups. He led the challenge …  (2018),  Masterpiece Cakeshop (2018),  Trinity Lutheran  (2017),  Hobby Lobby/Conestoga Wood  (2015), as well as other …

… focuses his efforts on protecting freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, and parental rights, and defending … defending the right of Christian adoption agencies to operate in accordance with the teachings of their faith; … 19 of those as a partner in the litigation department. In 2017, he took early retirement from Cravath in order to …

… Julie Marie Blake serves as senior counsel for regulatory litigation at Alliance … as deputy solicitor general for the state of Missouri from 2017 to 2020 and as assistant solicitor general for the state of …

… Jay Hobbs serves as Strategic Campaigns and Initiatives Director at Alliance … for ADF’s Viewpoint Diversity Score initiative. Prior to joining ADF in 2018, Jay worked at Heartbeat … Times, and The Washington Examiner, and he has contributed to pieces at The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, …

… Alan Sears served as founder of Alliance Defending Freedom, building on his experience as longtime leader of the organization to strengthen alliances, forge new relationships, and develop … Freedom, Sears led all strategic initiatives from 1993-2017. In his 23 years at the helm, he built an ADF team …

… Cody Barnett serves as legal counsel on Alliance Defending Freedom’s Appellate … Rehnquist Fellow at Cooper & Kirk PLLC.  He then went on to clerk for the Honorable Amul R. Thapar and the Honorable … his J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 2017, where he graduated first in his class.  He also served …

… Hailey Vrdolyak serves as legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where she … Before joining ADF, Vrdolyak served as a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals … from the University of Notre Dame in 2016. She is a 2017 Blackstone Fellow. She is a member of the state bar of …

… Alison (Ali) M. Kilmartin serves as senior counsel and chief of staff to CEO, President, and General Counsel Kristen Waggoner at … Kilmartin also directs the Grants & Funding Program which, to date, has awarded approximately $55 million in grant funds …