About Jeffery J. Ventrella

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Jeffery J. Ventrella serves as senior counsel and senior vice-president of strategic training for the Alliance Defense Fund at its Team Resource Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. Since joining ADF in 2000, he has headed the ADF Blackstone Legal Fellowship, a unique legal internship program that has graduated more than 700 outstanding law students. Ventrella also leads the ADF National Litigation Academy, which has trained more than 1,300 allied attorneys across the nation in litigating constitutional law cases. He regularly engages the culture through formal debates and serves as an approved speaker for The Federalist Society. Ventrella earned his J.D. from the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law and has practiced law since 1985. He is a member of the Idaho State Bar and is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, and the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.