Lawyers for Jesus

Ray Kaselonis serves as Senior Counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Christian Ministries. Since joining ADF, he has focused his practice on representing churches, religious ministries, and Christian schools to ensure their freedoms are protected under the First Amendment.

Ray works directly with the Alliance Defending Freedom Church Alliance and Ministry Alliance, which were founded to support the increasing legal needs of churches and ministries across the United States.

Dan Stovall is a retired Baptist minister and founder of Perpetual Amity, a Christian nonprofit organization in Illinois that aims to break barriers and build relationship with people from all parts of the world through the support of international students. The goal of Perpetual Amity is to live out the Gospel and show foreign students that Americans are generous, supportive, and caring people.

Dr. Wendy Patrick is a career trial attorney who has completed over 160 trials ranging from hate crimes to first-degree murder. In her current assignment, as a Deputy District Attorney in the San Diego Special Operations Division, she handles cases involving sensitive issues including threat assessment. Wendy previously worked in the Sex Crimes and Human Trafficking Division defending the interests of survivors by prosecuting violent sexual predators and human traffickers.

Doug Morrow is the Executive Director of Baptist Foundation of Illinois, an organization that exists to help individuals, churches, associations, and institutions meet their charitable and financial goals. Their mission is to encourage believers to respond both individually and corporately to God’s call of stewardship upon their lives.

Jeffrey Schwab is a Mauck & Baker alum and Senior Attorney at Liberty Justice Center, where he litigates cases to protect the rights to free speech, economic liberty, private property, and other Constitutional rights in both federal and state courts in Illinois. Liberty Justice Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public-interest litigation center that seeks to ensure that the rights to earn a living and start a business are available to all and fights to protect other fundamental rights in Illinois and beyond.

Amanda Freeman is a Mauck & Baker alum and current staff attorney at National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. National Right to Work is a nonprofit charitable organization with a mission to eliminate coercive union power and compulsory unionism abuses through strategic litigation, public information, and education programs. They advocate that every individual must have the right, but must not be compelled, to join a labor union.

Sally Wagenmaker is a founding partner at Wagenmaker & Oberly where she provides legal counsel in corporate, tax, employment, and real estate matters for nonprofits. She is also the current President of Christian Legal Society where she has been actively involved since law school.

Amanda Freeman is a Mauck & Baker alum and current staff attorney at National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. National Right to Work is a nonprofit charitable organization with a mission to eliminate coercive union power and compulsory unionism abuses through strategic litigation, public information, and education programs. They advocate that every individual must have the right, but must not be compelled, to join a labor union.

Jeffrey Schwab is a Mauck & Baker alum and Senior Attorney at Liberty Justice Center, where he litigates cases to protect the rights to free speech, economic liberty, private property, and other Constitutional rights in both federal and state courts in Illinois. Liberty Justice Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public-interest litigation center that seeks to ensure that the rights to earn a living and start a business are available to all and fights to protect other fundamental rights in Illinois and beyond.

Terry Lu is a new attorney at Mauck & Baker who is passionate about using his career as a lawyer to serve and grow the body of Christ.

Terry Lu originally graduated with a degree in Chemistry but a few years after went back to school to pursue Law. Prior to joining Mauck & Baker, Terry’s professional practice was primarily focused on litigation, but he is motivated to expand into other practice areas to better serve the interests of his clients.

Steve Zielke is the principal of St. Peter Lutheran School in Schaumburg and current President of the Northern IL District of Lutheran School Administrators. Over the past 40 years Steve has had a varied experience in Lutheran schools. He has taught students in the second grade through college. He has also served as principal of two Lutheran high schools and two Lutheran elementary schools.

Debbie Birkey is the Great Lakes Senior Regional Representative for HOPE International.

HOPE International is a network of microfinance institutions operating in 17 countries around the world working to empower men, women, and families to break the cycles of physical and spiritual poverty through discipleship, biblically based business training, savings services, and small loans. HOPE’s mission is to invest in the dreams of people in the world’s most underserved communities while proclaiming and living out the Gospel.