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About Pacific Legal Foundation

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

Chief Operating Officer

Senior Attorneys

Larry G. Salzman

Director of Litigation

Steve Simpson

Director of Separation of Powers Litigation

Robert H. Thomas

Director of Property Rights Litigation

Joshua P. Thompson

Director of Equality and Opportunity Litigation

J. David Breemer

Senior Attorney

Oliver J. Dunford

Senior Attorney

Brian T. Hodges

Senior Attorney

Deborah J. La Fetra

Senior Attorney

Christina M. Martin

Senior Attorney

Jeffrey W. McCoy

Senior Attorney

Mark Miller

Senior Attorney

Glenn E. Roper

Senior Attorney

Damien M. Schiff

Senior Attorney

Attorneys

Jack Brown

Laura D’Agostino

David J. Deerson

Adi Dynar

Wilson Freeman

Frank Garrison

Paige Gilliard

David Hoffa

Jon Houghton

Jeff Jennings

Chris Kieser

Caleb Kruckenberg

Donna Matias

Molly Nixon

Joshua Polk

Michael Poon

Andrew Quinio

Josh Robbins

Sam Spiegelman

Jeremy Talcott

Jessica Thompson

Caleb R. Trotter

Kady Valois

Luke Wake

Erin Wilcox

Daniel Woislaw

Charles Yates

Constitutional Law Fellows

Nick DeBenedetto

Constitutional Law Fellow

Adam Griffin

Constitutional Law Fellow

Isaiah McKinney

Constitutional Law Fellow

Alexander Smith

Constitutional Law Fellow

Communications and Outreach

Scott Barton

Senior Director of Communications and Outreach

Kate Pomeroy

Jaclyn Boudreau

Creative Director

Eric Shear

Digital Director

Rachel Swaffer

Outreach Director

Sean Akey

Digital Coordinator

Mike Avi

Programs Manager

Mim Blower

Content Marketing Manager

Grant Brown

Multimedia Producer

Kyle Griesinger

Gwendolyn Hodge

Brittany Hunter

Social Media and Editorial Writer

Joseph Kast

Creative Manager

Michael Slabinski

Coalitions Manager

John Sweeney

Nicole W.C. Yeatman

Editorial Director

Strategic Research and Legal Policy

Ethan W. Blevins

Daniel J. Dew

Legal Policy Director

Nicole Divers

Data Specialist

Angela C. Erickson

Strategic Research Director

Keelyn Gallagher

Strategic Research Analyst

Kileen Lindgren

Legal Policy Manager

Joe Luppino-Esposito

Deputy Legal Policy Director

Jim Manley

State Legal Policy Deputy Director

Duncan Schroeder

Research Assistant

Elizabeth Slattery

Director of Constitutional Scholarship

Stephen Slivinski

Deputy Director of Strategic Research

Alison Somin

Legal Fellow, Center for the Separation of Powers

Kyle Sweetland

Research Analyst

Will Yeatman

Senior Legal Fellow

Development

Doug Kruse

Senior Director of Development

Sandy Chauvin

Executive Assistant for Development

Cara A. Dublin

Foundations Relations Officer

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

Sarah A. Muse

Director of Stewardship and Operations

Legal Support

Brien P. Bartels

Legal Secretary

Tawnda A. Dyer

Senior Legal Secretary

Kiren Mathews

Workload Manager - Paralegal

Paula Puccio

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

Jimmy Lee

Help Desk Technician

Lexi Osborn

Talent and Development Coordinator

Garett Roush

Talent Coordinator

Eli West

Training Coordinator