Luke Goodrich
Deputy National Litigation Director, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Luke Goodrich is the Deputy National Litigation Director at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Since joining the Becket Fund in 2008, he has represented religious organizations and individuals in a wide variety of religious liberty disputes at both the trial and appellate level, including cases brought under the Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause, Free Speech Clause, and RLUIPA. In 2009, Luke was appointed a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Colorado and argued an Establishment Clause appeal in the Tenth Circuit on behalf of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and the Becket Fund.
Before joining the Becket Fund, Luke was an associate in the appellate practice at Winston & Strawn in Washington, D.C. There, he represented clients at all levels of state and federal courts in environmental, patent, bankruptcy, criminal, and constitutional cases. He drafted numerous Supreme Court petitions and briefs, and successfully argued a Third Circuit appeal, overturning a state murder conviction and life sentence on constitutional grounds.
Luke received his B.A. in Philosophy, summa cum laude, from Wheaton College (IL). He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with high honors, where he was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.
After law school, he clerked for Judge Michael W. McConnell on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He also worked as an international legal and research advisor at the U.S. Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.