Jonathan Scruggs serves as senior counsel and vice president of litigation strategy with Alliance Defending Freedom. In this role, he identifies new litigation opportunities, develops new legal strategies, and improves processes across multiple litigation teams in collaboration with the chief legal counsel.
Since joining ADF in 2006, Scruggs has worked on and prevailed in a variety of cases related to Title IX, gender ideology, and people’s right to freely express their faith, including Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 303 Creative v. Elenis, and Brush & Nib Studio v. Phoenix, which Scruggs argued at the Arizona Supreme Court. Scruggs has argued before numerous federal appellate courts and trial courts across the country and has extensive experience litigating free-speech, religious-liberty, establishment, Title IX, and equal-protection issues on behalf of students, female athletes, businesses, professionals, and non-profit entities.
Scruggs earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Vanderbilt University in 2003 and his J.D. at Harvard Law School in 2006. He is also a 2004 Blackstone Fellow.
A member of the bars of Arizona and Tennessee, Scruggs is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court and multiple federal district and appellate courts.
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Panel III: When Free Speech and Free Markets Intersect
2026 National Student Symposium
Beus Center for Law and Society111 E. Taylor Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Litigation Update: Bates v. Pakseresht
TeleforumThe Right to Speak or Not to Speak
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico Student Chapter
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico2250 Boulevard Luis A. Ferré Aguayo
Ponce, PR 00717
Panel III: When Free Speech and Free Markets Intersect
2026 National Student Symposium
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