White HouseBy BJC Staff Reports

Melissa Rogers, special assistant to the president and executive director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, will be the featured speaker at this year’s Religious Liberty Council Luncheon on June 27 in Atlanta, Ga.

Rogers, who was appointed to her current position in 2013, was the BJC’s associate general counsel from 1994-1999 and general counsel from 1999-2000. She also served as director of the Center for Religion and Public Affairs at Wake Forest University Divinity School and a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution.

In 2008, she co-authored a book published by Baylor University Press titled Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court.

The luncheon is open to the public, but you must have a ticket to attend. More information will be announced in the coming weeks. Visit BJConline.org/luncheon for the latest.

From the March 2014 Report from the Capital. Click here for the next article.