Cody Barnett

Cody Barnett serves as legal counsel on Alliance Defending Freedom’s Appellate Advocacy Team, where he represents various ADF clients before appellate courts across the country.

Before joining ADF, Barnett served as the William H. Rehnquist Fellow at Cooper & Kirk PLLC.  He then went on to clerk for the Honorable Amul R. Thapar and the Honorable Raymond M. Kethledge, both of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, and for the Honorable Justin R. Walker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Barnett earned his J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 2017, where he graduated first in his class.  He also served as president of the Christian Legal Society and as an articles editor for the Kentucky Law Journal.  He completed ADF’s Blackstone Legal Fellowship in 2017.  Prior to law school, Barnett earned a Bachelor of Arts in both history and political science from Transylvania University.

Barnett is admitted to practice law in Kentucky, the District of Columbia, and before several U.S. Courts of Appeal.