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Lea Patterson

Partner, Butterfield & Patterson, PLLC

Topics:	Litigation • Religious Liberty • School Choice

Topics:

Litigation • Religious Liberty • School Choice

Lea Patterson is co-founder of Butterfield & Patterson. Prior to co-founding Butterfield & Patterson, Lea served as Senior Counsel and Practice Group Chair at First Liberty Institute. There, she focused on religious liberty litigation, including landmark school choice case Carson v. Makin. Lea also clerked for the Honorable Raymond W. Gruender of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis, Missouri.

Lea received the full tuition Dillard Scholarship at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as an executive editor for the Virginia Law Review and as president of the UVA chapter of Advocates for Life, a national association of pro-life law students. During law school, Lea interned at the Texas Attorney General’s Office and Senator Ted Cruz’s office, focusing on the Judiciary Committee.

Lea graduated summa cum laude from Texas Christian University in 2013 with a Bachelors of Science in Political Science.

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