Erica O'Connell

Erica O'Connell serves as legal counsel on Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Public Policy. Her work focuses on protecting life from conception to natural death. Before joining ADF, Erica clerked on the Florida Supreme Court and Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal. She also served as a criminal prosecutor in the Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office.

Erica earned a Juris Doctor in 2015 from the Florida State University College of Law where she served as managing editor of the Law Review and vice president of the Cuban American Bar Association student chapter. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami. Erica is admitted to practice law in Florida, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.