Meet Our Speaker

Erin Morrow Hawley serves as senior counsel and vice president of the Center for Life and Regulatory Practice at Alliance Defending Freedom. Hawley has litigated extensively before the U.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, and state courts of last resort. On ADF’s behalf, she served as co-counsel to Mississippi in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and as lead counsel in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA. Before joining ADF, Hawley practiced appellate law at Kirkland and Ellis LLP, Bancroft LLP, and King & Spalding LLP. She also worked at the Department of Justice, serving as counsel to Attorney General Michael Mukasey.

As an academic, Hawley served as an associate professor of law at the University of Missouri and senior fellow at the Kinder Institute for Constitutional Democracy. Her scholarship focuses primarily on federal courts and has been published in numerous top journals.

Hawley is a frequent commentator on legal issues. Her work has been quoted or featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, US News, USA Today, Fox News, The Washington Examiner, World, Newsweek, the Legal Times, and the Hill, among others. Hawley has also written a book on motherhood, entitled Living Beloved: Lessons From My Little Ones About the Heart of God.

Hawley is a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Hawley received her bachelor’s degree in animal science from Texas A&M University and her law degree from Yale Law School where she served as a Coker Fellow in Constitutional Law and on the Yale Law Journal.