The IJ Team
IJ’s attorneys and staff work on behalf of those with the heart but not the means to fight for their most important rights. We take our clients’ cases before judges and their stories to the general public, and we educate the public, grassroots activists, lawmakers, lawyers and law students, and elite academic audiences about the vital importance of the protections and principles enshrined in the Constitution.
Leadership

Dana Berliner
Senior Vice President and Litigation Director

Scott G. Bullock
President and General Counsel

Bert Gall
Managing Vice President and Senior Attorney

Daniel Knepper
Managing Vice President/CFO

Deborah Simpson
Chief Operating Officer

William H. Mellor
Chairman and Founding General Counsel
Vice Presidents

John E. Kramer
Vice President for Communications

Beth Stevens
Vice President for Development
Attorneys

Dan Alban
Senior Attorney

Paul Avelar
Managing Attorney of the Institute for Justice Arizona Office

Michael Bindas
Senior Attorney

Erica Smith Ewing
Senior Attorney

Robert Frommer
Senior Attorney

Wesley Hottot
Senior Attorney

Rob Johnson
Senior Attorney

William R. Maurer
Managing Attorney of the Institute for Justice Washington Office

Robert McNamara
Senior Attorney

Arif Panju
Managing Attorney of the Texas Office

Justin Pearson
Managing Attorney of the Institute for Justice Florida Office

Jeff Rowes
Senior Attorney

Paul Sherman
Senior Attorney

William Aronin
Attorney

Ari Bargil
Attorney

Bob Belden
Attorney

Anya Bidwell
Attorney

Caroline Grace Brothers
Attorney

Tori Clark
Attorney

Ben Field
Attorney

Renée Flaherty
Attorney

Joe Gay
Attorney

Sam Gedge
Attorney

Alexa Gervasi
Attorney

Michael Greenberg
Attorney

David Hodges
Educational Choice Attorney

Joshua House
Attorney

Patrick Jaicomo
Attorney

James T. Knight II
Attorney

Evan Lisull
Proofreader & Cite Checker

Jared McClain
Attorney

Marie Miller
Attorney

Keith Neely
Attorney

Daniel Nelson
Law & Liberty Fellow

Robert Peccola
Attorney & IJ's Four Pillar Society Special Counsel

Daniel Rankin
Law & Liberty Fellow

Jeffrey Redfern
Attorney

Suranjan Sen
Attorney

Diana Simpson
Attorney

Jaba Tsitsuashvili
Attorney

Andrew Ward
Attorney

Kirby Thomas West
Attorney

Joshua Windham
Attorney

John Wrench
Attorney

Seth Young
Law & Liberty Fellow

Brian Morris
Attorney
Paralegals

Gretchen Embrey
Senior Paralegal

Kyndra Griffin
Paralegal

Fatiah Ivory
Paralegal

Molly Karten
Office Manager and Paralegal (TX and AZ Office)

Hilary Loya
Paralegal and Office Manager (WA Office)

Kendall Morton
Paralegal and Special Projects Manager (TX Office)

Diana Olazabal
Paralegal

Claire Purple
Paralegal

Rebekah Ramirez
Paralegal and Office Manager (FL Office)

Allisia Wild
Paralegal & Office Manager
Legal Staff

Melissa LoPresti
Assistant Director of Litigation Operations

Cara Di Silvio
Litigation Project Coordinator

Adam Linthicum
Forfeiture Intake Coordinator and Public Records Coordinator

Will Lucardi
Litigation Assistant

Marissa Quay
Litigation Operations Coordinator
Communications

John E. Kramer
Vice President for Communications

J. Justin Wilson
Senior Director of Communications

Don Wilson
Senior Creative Director

Laura Maurice-Apel
Assistant Director of Design

Mark Meranta
Assistant Director of Video Production

Andrew Wimer
Director of Media Relations

Conor Beck
Communications Project Manager

Rima Gerhard
Web Developer

Adam Gray
Motion Graphics Designer

Dan King
Communications Project Manager

Marianne March
Digital Marketing and Communications Strategist

Erin Nogle
Graphic Designer

Matt Powers
Reporting and Communications Manager

Nick Sibilla
Writer & Legislative Analyst

Joshua Swain
Producer

Nathalie Walker
Graphic Designer

Casey Wilson
Cinematographer/Editor
Activism

Jennifer McDonald
Assistant Director of Activism Special Projects

Chad Reese
Assistant Director of Activism

Christina Walsh
Senior Director of Activism and Coalitions

Jordan Banegas
Activism Manager

Ellen Hamlett
Activism Coordinator

Deanna McCollum
Activism Coordinator

Alex Montgomery
City Policy Associate

Maya Rubin
Activism Assistant

Rachel Williams
Activism Assistant
Strategic Research

Dick M. Carpenter II, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Strategic Research

Lisa Knepper
Senior Director of Strategic Research

Mindy Menjou
Assistant Director of Strategic Research

Darwyyn Deyo
Senior Research Fellow

Tony Laudadio
Research Assistant

Alec Mena
Research Assistant

Kathy Sanchez
Researcher

Elyse Smith Pohl
Legal Research and Policy Attorney

Hannah So
Research Assistant

Kyle Sweetland
Researcher

David Warren
Senior Research Analyst

Harrison Weeks
Research Analyst
Legislation

Lee McGrath
Senior Legislative Counsel and Managing Attorney of the Institute for Justice Minnesota Office

Jaimie Cavanaugh
Attorney

Meagan Forbes
Legislative Counsel

Jessica Poitras
Legislative Counsel
IJ Clinic

Beth Kregor
IJ Clinic Director

Catherine Copeland Gryczan
IJ Clinic Assistant Director

Noah Bazis
Policy Fellow
Center for Judicial Engagement

Anthony Sanders
Director of the Center for Judicial Engagement

John Ross
Editor and Producer, Short Circuit
Development

Beth Stevens
Vice President for Development

Matt Bagnoli
Director of Individual Giving

Kim Norberg
Director of Donor Communications

Tommy Creegan
Grants Manager

Lisa Bergstrom
Digital Communications Manager

Robert Cook
Development Assistant

Rosalind Hanson
Donor Relations Manager

Kenzie Jaicomo
Major Gifts Coordinator

Anne Komer
Special Gifts Coordinator

Owen Mason
Membership Assistant

Anne-Lise Quinn
Director of Grants

Jordan Shaffer
Development Research Manager

Kristen Sibori
Monthly Giving Assistant

Lyndsay Von Ehrenhelm
Development Administrative Assistant

Ross Ward
Donor Relations Assistant

Janae Wilkerson
Development Writer
Administration

Matt Corbett
Senior Director of Information Technology

Abby Halzel
Director of Recruiting

Lorena Lopez
Controller

Meghan O'Hair
Senior Director of Administration

Calvin Bates
Assistant Director of IT

Mirela Brown
Assistant Director of Salesforce Operations

Cara Shaffer
Assistant Controller

Savannah Anchinges
Project Assistant

Kelly Broome
HR Manager

Leah Harrison
Business Services Coordinator

Cassandra Hoch
HR Assistant

Anna-Sophia Massaro
Office and Facilities Assistant

Savannah Rupp
Recruiter

Jennifer Smith
Accounting Manager

JoJo Tompkins
Events Coordinator

Kat Wrench
Student Programs Coordinator and Legal Recruiter

Andy Yu
Systems Coordinator