Matthew Ray serves as legal counsel for the Center for Academic Freedom with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he defends the rights of students, professors, and organizations to speak, associate, and worship freely.
Before joining ADF, Ray clerked for the Honorable Jeffery S. Malcom for the Northern Judicial Circuit of Georgia.
Ray earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2022. He is a 2022 Blackstone Fellow. Prior to law school, Ray graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in European History and English Literature. Ray is a member of the bars of Virginia and Georgia.