Keynote Speaker: HIRAM SASSER

Executive General Counsel First Liberty Institute

Adjunct Professor Oklahoma City University School of Law

Hiram Sasser is Executive General Counsel for First Liberty Institute, where he oversees First Liberty’s litigation and media efforts. Sasser’s practice focuses on First Amendment and other constitutional and civil rights issues relating to religious liberty.

Sasser served as co-counsel in eight victories before the United States Supreme Court, including Groff v. DeJoy (landmark case overturning the “de minimis cost” test for Title VII in place almost 50 years), Kennedy v. Bremerton (landmark case overturning 50 years of Establishment Clause precedent), Carson v. Makin (overturning 40 years of Maine’s discrimination against parents choosing faith-based schools), Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan v. Acevedo Feliciano (summary reversal finding a jurisdictional defect in church autonomy dispute), American Legion v. American Humanist Association (landmark case ending Establishment Clause attacks on veterans’ memorials with religious imagery), Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (granted, vacated, and remanded (twice) in religious wedding service case), and Sause v. Bauer (summary reversal revoking qualified immunity for police who ordered a citizen not to pray in her own home).

He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at both The University of Texas at Austin School of Law (teaching Religious Liberty) and Oklahoma City University School of Law (teaching Civil Rights Procedure).

Hiram is also passionate about inspiring other lawyers to find fulfillment in the legal profession by recognizing that they were created for a purpose to achieve the good works created inimitably for them.