Founding Member, Gammage & Burnham PLC
Grady Gammage, Jr. has been practicing law in Phoenix for 40 years. His practice has focused on land use, zoning and real estate projects throughout Arizona. He has represented projects ranging from master planned communities and subdivisions to high rise buildings and intense urban mixed-use redevelopment.
Examples of public sector representation include zoning ordinances in Sedona, Avondale, Cave Creek and Phoenix. He also has represented cities with regard to economic development issues and development agreements. He has represented dozens of clients regarding State Trust Land and was a principal author of the state Urban Lands Act.
He served on the Central Arizona Project Board of Directors for 12 years, and was President during a period of turbulence when the CAP was suing the Federal Government over the cost of the canal.
As a real estate developer, he built an intense, urban mixed use project in the City of Tempe which won three architectural awards and has been widely acclaimed.
Mr. Gammage’s recent book The Future of the Suburban City: Lessons from Sustaining Phoenix has just been published by Island Press.
Executive Vice President, Goldwater Institute
Christina Sandefur is the Executive Vice President at the Goldwater Institute. She develops policies and litigates cases advancing healthcare freedom, free enterprise, private property rights, free speech, and taxpayer rights.
Christina is a co-drafter of the Right to Try initiative, now federal law, which protects terminally ill patients' right to try safe investigational treatments that have been prescribed by their physician but are not yet FDA-approved. She has won important victories for property rights in Arizona and works nationally to promote the Institute's Private Property Rights Protection Act, a state-level reform that requires government to pay owners when regulations destroy property rights and reduce property values.
Christina is the co-author of the book Cornerstone of Liberty: Private Property Rights in 21st Century America (2016). She is a frequent guest on national television and radio programs, has provided expert legal testimony to various legislative committees, and is a frequent speaker at conferences. She is the recipient of the 2018 Buckley Award in recognition of her leadership in the freedom movement, and she is an Advisory Board Member of the Network of enlightened Women. Christina serves on the board of the Phoenix Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society and is a member of the executive committee for the Federalist Society's Regulatory Transparency Project: FDA & Health.
Christina is a graduate of Michigan State University College of Law and Hillsdale College.
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