Judging Panels
The 2009 Final Round
- Barry Lynn, Executive Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State
- Mark Chopko, Chair, Nonprofit & Religious Organizations, Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP
- Eric Treene, Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
The 2009 Semifinal Round
- Ryan Nelson, Formerly of Sidley Austin's Religious Institutions Practice
- Daniel Mach, Director of Litigation in the ACLU's Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief
- Tom Starnes, Counsel, Andrews Kurth LLP
- Roger Severino, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice
The 2009 Quarterfinal Round
- Heather Weaver, Staff Attorney, ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief
- David Moore, Visiting Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
- Arthur B. Spitzer, Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area
- Walter Weber, Senior Litigation Counsel, American Center for Law and Justice, Washington, D.C.
- Jesse Merriam, Research Associate, The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
- David Salmons, Partner, Bingham McCutchen (Former assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States)
- Carly Gammill, Litigation Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of the American Center for Law and Justice
- Maggie Garrett, Assistant Legislative Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State
- Alex Luchenitser, Senior Litigation Counsel, Americans United for Separation of Church and State
- Melissa Rogers, Founder and Director, Wake Forest University's Center for Religion and Public Affairs
The 2009 Preliminary Round
- Frank Walsh, Associate, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
- Llewellyn Woolford, Jr., Assistant Chief Counsel, Children, Families and Aging Division, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Health and Human Services
- Robert Cali, Assistant General Counsel of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)
- Daniel Rosenthal, Associate, Wilmer Hale
- Cassidy Kesler Pinegar, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia
- Marc Alain Bohn, Associate, Miller & Chevalier
- Bryson Bachman, Associate, Sidley Austin LLP
- Andrew Williams, Chief, Air and Space Law Branch, HQ USAF Operations and International Law Division
- Jeffrey Chang, Associate, WilmerHale
- Zachary Parks, Associate, Covington & Burling LLP
- HL Rogers, Associate, Sidley Austin LLP
- Nathan Oman, Assistant Professor, Marshall-Wythe School of Law at The College of William and Mary
- Thomas Isaacson, Partner, Novak Druce + Quigg
- Eric Beane, Trial Attorney, Federal Programs Branch, Department of Justice, Civil Division
- Karen Wagner, Senior Attorney, General Law Division, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Health and Human Services
- Roman Storzer, Partner, Storzer & Greene, PLLC
- Christopher Esseltine, Associate, Arent Fox LLP
- James Gibson, Staff Counsel, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty
- Jonathan Jacobs, Associate, Aegis Law Group, LLP
- Blaine Blood, Attorney at Law
- Sheldon Gilbert, Director of Legal Communications, National Chamber Litigation Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Jefferey Bailey, Associate, Williams & Connolly LLP
- Thomas Miller, Associate Counsel, Office of the Assistant General Counsel (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), Department of the Navy
- Honorable Kent A. Jordan, United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit
- Honorable John M. Rogers, United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit
- Martin S. Lederman, Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center
- Mark E. Chopko, General Counsel, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
- Frederick Mark Gedicks, Guy Anderson Chair and Professor of Law at Brigham Young University Law School
- Jay Jorgensen, a two-time Supreme Court clerk and current partner with Sidley Austin's Religious Institutions practice
- David Bruce Salmons, Assistant to the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice
- Roger T. Severino, Legal Counsel and Chief Operations Officer for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
- Arthur Spitzer, Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area
- Steve Aden, Chief Litigation Counsel for the Christian Legal Society's Center for Law and Religious Freedom
- Eric W. Treene, Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
- Abram Ellis, associate with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
- Frederick Mark Gedicks, Guy Anderson Chair and Professor of Law at Brigham Young University Law School
- Craig King, head of Arent Fox's Government Contractor Services Group
- Rana Lehr-Lehnardt, former Legal Advisor to the ACLU's Project on Freedom of Religion and Belief
- Daniel Mach, attorney with the ACLU's Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief
- Richard H. Menard, Jr., attorney with Sidley Austin's Religious Institutions Practice
- Ryan Nelson, Department of Justice (formerly of Sidley Austin's Religious Institutions Practice)
- H.L. Rogers, attorney with Sidley Austin's Religious Institutions practice
- Melissa Rogers, Founder and director of Wake Forest's Center for Religion and Public Affairs
- Walter M. Weber, Senior Litigation Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice
Past Judges
2007 | 2008 (click year to view judges)
The 2007 Championship Round
The 2007 Semi-Final Rounds
The 2007 Preliminary Rounds