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===Leadership and international expansion=== The ADF's first president, CEO and Chief Counsel was Alan Sears, who was also a founder of the organization.<ref name="adflegal.org" /> Sears has been described as "an ardent [[anti-pornography movement|antipornography]] crusader",<ref name="stengel" /> and had previously served as staff executive director of the [[Reagan administration]] Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, which produced the 1986 [[Meese Report]].<ref name="meese" /> Sears led the organization for over 20 years, until 2017. From 2017 to 2022, [[Michael Farris (lawyer)|Michael Farris]], the founder of [[Patrick Henry College]], was [[CEO]] of ADF. Farris lobbied Congress for the passage of the [[Religious Freedom Restoration Act]] of 1993.<ref name="adflegal.org" /> He has been closely associated with the Christian [[homeschooling]] movement since the 1980s and is the founder of the Christian organization [[Home School Legal Defense Association]], which offers legal representation to home-schooling parents.<ref name="vile-adf" /> In 2016, Farris voiced opposition to [[Donald Trump]]'s [[Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016|candidacy for president]], opining that "Trump most clearly fails the traditional standard championed by the Christian right on the subject of personal character."<ref name="tulsa-farris" /> However, after Trump refused to concede the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]] and made false claims of voter fraud, Farris worked to [[Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election|overturn the election results]], drafting a legal complaint with Texas Attorney General [[Ken Paxton]] in the unsuccessful case ''[[Texas v. Pennsylvania]]''.<ref name="draft-complaint" /><ref name="farris-election" /> On October 1, 2022, Kristen Waggoner succeeded Farris as CEO and President of ADF, retaining her role as General Counsel.<ref name="2022CEO" />
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