Berkley Center

Hannah Smith joined the Becket Fund in 2007 following US Supreme Court clerkships for Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito, Jr. With the Beckett Fund, she has argued religious liberty cases at the trial, appellate, and US Supreme Court levels. She currently serves as a member of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society International Board and as an editorial advisory board member for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, Utah, for which she also writes a regular column on religious liberty issues. Smith graduated from Brigham Young University Law School with honors, where she served as executive editor of the BYU Law Review, a research assistant for the BYU International Center for Law and Religion Studies, and as president of the BYU Federalist Society. She served as a full-time volunteer missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France and Switzerland.