Board Member
senior counsel and vice president of academic affairs & strategic affairs, Alliance Defending Freedom
Dallas, Texas
Andrew D. Graham serves as senior counsel and vice president of academic affairs & strategic affairs at Alliance Defending Freedom. He directs ADF’s academic initiatives; engages with leading intellectuals, conservative leaders and policymakers, and philanthropists; and speaks at learned gatherings, universities, and think tanks on law, politics, and culture.
Additionally, he is a senior fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute in Washington, DC; an elected member and trustee of The Philadelphia Society; an elected member of The Mont Pelerin Society; a member of The Federalist Society, where he serves on the executive committee for the Professional Responsibility & Legal Education Practice Group; a member of the board of governors of the John Jay Institute; and a member of the advisory council for the Dallas Forum on Law, Politics, and Culture.
By appointment of the Supreme Court of Texas, he also serves on the Board of Disciplinary Appeals (BODA), Texas’ statewide independent adjudicatory body of 12 lawyers concerned with legal ethics and charged with disciplinary enforcement.
Previously, Graham was a partner at Jackson Walker LLP, a 135-year-old Texas law firm with more than 400 lawyers, where he achieved an extensive record of success in high-stakes litigation in both trial and appellate courts and was named a “Super Lawyers—Rising Star” multiple times.
His articles and reviews have appeared in the Federalist Society Review, Law & Liberty, Texas Review of Law & Politics, and Public Discourse.
Graham earned his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude at Southern Methodist University (SMU), where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and the Hyer Society. He then earned master’s degrees at Oxford University (Oriel College) and The University of Chicago before returning home to Texas to earn his law degree at The University of Texas School of Law.
He is the first person in his family to attend college and is a first-generation American with dual American–Australian citizenship. He and his wife Molly (a classical Christian school educator) have three children and live in Dallas, Texas.