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… Defending Freedom, Sears led all strategic initiatives from 1993-2017. In his 23 years at the helm, he built an ADF team … term. Under Sears’ leadership, ADF attorneys won more than three out of four cases in which they participated and …

… City trial attorney defending churches and ministries from trial courts to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1981, Mike … of Columbia, Mo. v. Comer , “the playground case.” In 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Mike’s … for the Missouri Baptist Convention and recently won three cases restoring three Missouri Baptist agencies to …

… 19 of those as a partner in the litigation department. In 2017, he took early retirement from Cravath in order to devote his energies to advancing … addition, he filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil …

… as deputy solicitor general for the state of Missouri from 2017 to 2020 and as assistant solicitor general for the … National Association of Attorneys General for her U.S. Supreme Court advocacy. Before entering government service in …

… Writer for Alliance Defending Freedom in the organization's Scottsdale, Arizona, office. He holds a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Utah and a master of arts in theology … Advocates for Faith and Freedom, and his personal blog, the Religion and Politics Blog . … Neal Hardin … Web …

… students and professors. Lorence argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the precedent-setting  Southworth v. Board …  (2018),  Masterpiece Cakeshop (2018),  Trinity Lutheran  (2017),  Hobby Lobby/Conestoga Wood  (2015), as well as other … American Center for Law and Justice. Lorence earned a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School and received a …

… under the First Amendment. Tucker began his work at ADF in 2017, defending the conscience rights of Christian business … and Arizona, Tucker is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court and multiple federal district and appellate courts. … …

… of which have set national and multinational precedents. From 2018 to 2021, Kilmartin was a senior executive service … in Big Law for just under a decade, including in the U.S. Supreme Court on several occasions. In 2014, Kilmartin successfully …

… and the Honorable Raymond M. Kethledge, both of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, and for the Honorable … for the District of Columbia. Barnett earned his J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 2017, where he graduated first in his class.  He also served …

… organizations and advocates. Bongiorno earned her J.D. from University of Wisconsin Law and obtained her B.A., summa … and Spanish from Eastern Michigan University. She is a 2017 First Liberty Fellow. Bongiorno is admitted to the … bars and the Western District of Wisconsin federal court. … Abigail Bongiorno … Legal Counsel … Abigail Bongiorno …