Lisa Ezell - First Liberty

Lisa Ezell joined First Liberty in July 2025 as Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships. In this role, she uses her deep knowledge of the conservative legal community to foster relationships between First Liberty and attorneys, students, and other allies motivated to defend religious liberty for all Americans.

She previously served as Vice President and Director of the Federalist Society’s lawyers chapters. In that role, she directed a growing network of over 130 lawyers chapters nationwide, including oversight of leadership development, programming, membership recruitment, clerkship and career mentorship, and young lawyer activities. Federalist Society chapters are now active in all fifty states and Puerto Rico. Lisa also launched over twenty annual state and regional conferences while at the Society, which featured United States Supreme Court justices, state and federal elected officials and jurists, and other leading practitioners and opinion leaders. She also represented the Federalist Society at external conferences and coalition meetings.

Lisa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Mary’s College in Political Science and History and a Master of Public Policy degree from George Mason University. She is a member of the American Enterprise Institute’s Leadership Network as well as the Philadelphia Society.

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Religious liberty is our first liberty as Americans. At First Liberty Institute, we know that it can be confusing when you face a challenge to your religious liberty. No one should have to face it alone.

That’s where First Liberty can help. We have decades of experience making sure people just like you get the help they deserve. We are a nationwide, religious liberty law firm with an unmatched record of defending religious liberty—in our schools, for our houses of worship, in the military, and throughout the public arena.

If you believe your religious liberty has been threatened or violated, please fill out the form below so we can evaluate your case.

Our legal intake team personally evaluates each request for legal help and may follow up with you over the phone for more information about your specific situation. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to take every case, but if we do, our legal services are provided at no charge to you (pro bono).

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