Chris Galiardo, Staff Counsel at Thomas More Society, is a passionate defender of life and family. He earned his A.B. from Dartmouth with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa, an MPP from Harvard, and a JD from Yale, where he was managing editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review and a finalist for the school’s top paper prize for 3Ls. After law school, Chris clerked for three federal district court judges and for the Honorable Lawrence VanDyke on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Chris joined Thomas More Society after a career in government that included serving as an Assistant Attorney General in the Texas Office of the Solicitor General and in various capacities at the White House, State Department, Pentagon, and Senate Judiciary Committee. He holds a top secret security clearance.

Chris was a seminarian with the Legionaries of Christ between high school and college, is a fourth-degree Knight of Columbus, and has been involved in the pro-life movement since elementary school. He is committed to community service more broadly as well, especially in the public education space, having worked for Teach For America out of college and with the royal family of Qatar to reform the emirate’s school system while a Fulbright Scholar. He is a recipient of the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Community Service.

Most importantly, he is a proud son and grandson of hardworking pillars of the local community, brother of seven, and uncle of fourteen.