Matthew Clark graduated from the Liberty University School of Law in 2012 in the top 10% of his class, and he had served on both the law review editorial board and moot court board. From 2013-2016, Clark worked on the Alabama Supreme Court, beginning as a law clerk but being promoted to a staff attorney after one year. From 2016 until 2021, Clark worked at the Foundation for Moral Law in Montgomery, practicing constitutional law and focusing on religious liberty, the right to life, and promoting a strict interpretation of the United States Constitution according to the intent of its framers.
After joining ACLL in March of 2021, Clark sued the Biden administration over its OSHA vaccine mandate, took it all the way to the United States Supreme Court, and won. Clark also successfully got UAB Health to rescind its vaccine mandate for its employees, guaranteeing that their jobs would be safe so that they could continue to provide much-needed medical services to those in need. Clark also successfully led a campaign of multiple legal and public policy organizations to pressure the Montgomery City Council to vote down an LGBT ordinance that would punish Christians with religious objections to endorsing, encouraging, or enabling conduct that they find sinful. Through his amicus advocacy, Clark has also asked the United States Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade, protect the right of citizens to carry firearms for self-defense outside their homes, recognize the right of government employees to pray in public, and return Congress’s commerce power to the very limited role that the Framers intended for it to have.
Clark is admitted to the state bars of Alabama and Virginia. He is also admitted to the bars of the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Sixth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama. He is also a member of the Federalist Society’s Religious Liberty Executive Committee and an officer in his local Federalist Society Chapter. In 2021 and 2022, he was also a member of Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill’s Voter Fraud Task Force. He also occasionally lectures at Faulkner University on constitutional law.
Clark is married to his wife Laura, who is also an attorney, has an LLM in Alternative Dispute Resolution from the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, and volunteers her time to assist ACLL. They have one child and are members of Vaughn Park Church in Montgomery.
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