Staff

Executive Leadership

Steven D. Anderson

President and CEO

James S. Burling

Vice President of Legal Affairs

John M. Groen

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Chad Wilcox

Vice President for Operations & Strategy

Senior Attorneys

Larry G. Salzman

Vice President for Litigation, Policy & Research

Steve Simpson

Director of Separation of Powers Litigation Separation of Powers

Robert H. Thomas

Director of Property Rights Litigation Property Rights

Joshua P. Thompson

Director of Equality and Opportunity Litigation Equality & Opportunity

J. David Breemer

Senior Attorney Property Rights

Oliver J. Dunford

Senior Attorney Separation of Powers

Brian T. Hodges

Senior Attorney Property Rights

Deborah J. La Fetra

Senior Attorney Property Rights

Christina M. Martin

Senior Attorney Property Rights

Jeffrey W. McCoy

Senior Attorney Property Rights

Mark Miller

Senior Attorney Property Rights

Glenn E. Roper

Senior Attorney Equality & Opportunity

Damien M. Schiff

Senior Attorney Separation of Powers

Attorneys

Jack Brown

Attorney Equality & Opportunity

Laura D’Agostino

Attorney Equality & Opportunity

Nick DeBenedetto

Litigation Fellow

David J. Deerson

Attorney Property Rights

Haley Dutch

Attorney Equality & Opportunity

Adi Dynar

Attorney Separation of Powers

Wilson Freeman

Attorney Equality & Opportunity

Frank Garrison

Attorney Separation of Powers

Paige Gilliard

Attorney Separation of Powers

Adam Griffin

Attorney
Separation of Powers

David Hoffa

Attorney Equality & Opportunity

Jon Houghton

Attorney Property Rights

Jeff Jennings

Attorney Equality & Opportunity

Chris Kieser

Attorney Property Rights

Donna Matias

Attorney Equality & Opportunity

David McDonald

Attorney Property Rights

Isaiah McKinney

Litigation Fellow

Molly Nixon

Attorney Separation of Powers

Joshua Polk

Attorney Equality & Opportunity

Michael Poon

Attorney Separation of Powers

Andrew Quinio

Attorney Equality & Opportunity

Sean Radomski

Attorney Separation of Powers

Josh Robbins

Attorney Separation of Powers

Alexander Smith

Litigation Fellow

Jeremy Talcott

Attorney Property Rights

Caleb R. Trotter

Attorney Equality & Opportunity

Kady Valois

Attorney Property Rights

Luke Wake

Attorney Separation of Powers

Erin Wilcox

Attorney Equality & Opportunity

Daniel Woislaw

Attorney Property Rights

Charles Yates

Attorney Separation of Powers

Strategic Research

Megan Jenkins

Strategic Research Director

Stephen Slivinski

Deputy Director of Strategic Research

Nicole Divers

Data Specialist

Jacob Fishbeck

Strategic Research Manager

Keelyn Gallagher

Strategic Research Analyst

Kyle Sweetland

Research Analyst

Legal Policy

Jaimie Cavanaugh

Legal Policy Counsel 

Daniel J. Dew

Legal Policy Director

Kileen Lindgren

Legal Policy Manager

Joe Luppino-Esposito

Deputy Legal Policy Director

Jim Manley

State Legal Policy Deputy Director

Constitutional Scholarship

Elizabeth Slattery

Director of Constitutional Scholarship

Ethan W. Blevins

Legal Fellow

Duncan Schroeder

Research Assistant

Alison Somin

Legal Fellow

Will Yeatman

Senior Legal Fellow

Communications and Outreach

Scott Barton

Vice President for Communications & Marketing

Kate Pomeroy

Media Director

Jaclyn Boudreau

Brand Director

Rachel Swaffer

Outreach Director

Nicole W.C. Yeatman

Editorial Director

Mike Avi

Programs Manager

Grant Brown

Multimedia Producer

Kyle Griesinger

Media Manager Separation of Powers

Gwendolyn Hodge

Events Manager

Brittany Hunter

Social Media and Editorial Writer

Joseph Kast

Creative Manager

Jen Ohman

Media Manager Equality & Opportunity

Michael Slabinski

Coalitions Manager

John Sweeney

Media Manager Property Rights

Development

Sarah A. Muse

Director of Stewardship and Operations

Sandy Chauvin

Executive Assistant for Development

Cara A. Dublin

Grants Manager

LeAnne Fields

Development Stewardship Coordinator

Catharina A. Gonzalez

Database Administrator

Caroline Gray-Klahr

Database Specialist

Kathy Hoekstra

Development Communications Officer

Ellen Hubbard

Director of Donor Relations

Ben W. Johnson

Donor Relations Officer

James G. Katzinski

Gift Planning Officer

Jake Leach

Donor Relations Officer

Jared Morris

Annual Giving Manager

Legal Support

Brien P. Bartels

Legal Secretary

Tawnda A. Dyer

Senior Legal Secretary

Meghan Hixon

Legal Secretary

Kiren Mathews

Workload Manager - Paralegal

Cindy Piett

Legal Secretary

Paula Puccio

Paralegal

Barbara A. Siebert

Legal Secretary

Alexa Tamosaitis

Executive Assistant to the Legal Department

Katherine Turnbill

Legal Secretary

Operations

Phil Applebaum

Director of Talent and Culture

Rico Brown

System Support Technician

Alexis Chan

Employee Experience Specialist

Sam Chang

Director of Information Technology

Hayden Gilbert

IT Training Manager

Dawn Gonzales

Director of Finance, HR Generalist

Linda Hellekson

Director of Administration

Lexi Osborn

Talent and Development Coordinator

Garett Roush

Talent Coordinator

Eric Shear

Director of Business Intelligence

Eli West

Training Coordinator