Joe Luppino-Esposito is the Federal Policy director at Pacific Legal Foundation, where he leads a team dedicated to developing solutions and advocating for change in federal law that respects the Constitution and is aligned with PLF’s legal practice.
Joe has learned that the risk in pushing hard in service of more liberty for more people is worth the reward. It’s resulted in bills becoming law (Schoolhouse Rock-style), executive orders (SNL’s Schoolhouse Rock-style), and regulations finalized or canceled (no one has come up with a clever sketch for that), plus a few vetoes, pardons, and headlines along the way.
Prior to PLF, Joe was director of Rule of Law Initiatives at the Due Process Institute and was directly involved in the passage of the First Step Act (as in, went-to-the-signing-ceremony-involved). Prior to that, he worked at Right On Crime at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, leading their federal efforts to advance conservative criminal justice principles in Washington. He also previously served as a visiting fellow for overcriminalization at The Heritage Foundation. He has also worked on public pensions, healthcare, labor law, and federalism.
The constant in Joe’s portfolio is educating and activating citizens and public officials to reform government to work for the people, not against them.
A New Jersey native, Joe earned a J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey, and served as editor-in-chief of Seton Hall Circuit Review law journal. He earned a B.A. in government and American studies from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Joe and his wife, Amanda, plus their two kids, live in western Loudoun County, Virginia, which is a key part of Joe’s attempt to be the most outside-the-Beltway “insider” in Washington.
Joe is a member of the bar only in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
