1. Edwin Frederick Kagin was an attorney at law in Union, Kentucky, and a founder of Camp Quest, the first secular summer camp in the United States for the children of secularists, atheists, agnostics, brights, skeptics, naturalists and freethinkers.
Edwin Kagin served as the National Legal Director of American Atheists from 2006 until his death in 2014.
Edwin Kagin was born in Greenville, South Carolina, to a Presbyterian minister father who had been born in Kentucky and a Daughters of the American Revolution mother who had been born in South Carolina.
Edwin Kagin was married to Helen McGregor Kagin, a Canadian of Scottish descent from Regina, Saskatchewan, who was a retired anesthesiologist.
Edwin Kagin died in 2014 at the age of 73 at his home in Union, Kentucky.
Edwin Kagin was a founding member in 1991 of the Free Inquiry Group, Inc.
Edwin Kagin is the originator and was, for its first decade, Director of Camp Quest, the nation's first residential secular summer camp for children of Atheists and other freethinkers, started in 1996 by FIG.
Edwin Kagin was then an incorporator, and a founding board member, of Camp Quest, Inc.
Edwin Kagin was a founder and board member of Recover Resources Center, which provides an alternative addiction recovery program to the religiously oriented Alcoholics Anonymous.
Edwin Kagin served on the national advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance and on January 13,2006, was named national legal director for American Atheists, replacing the retiring Duane Buchholtz.
Edwin Kagin was named as "Atheist of the Year" twice, first in 2005 with his wife and again in 2008.
Edwin Kagin ran prominently, albeit unsuccessfully, as "the candidate without a prayer" for the Kentucky Supreme Court and the Kentucky State Senate.
Edwin Kagin was a member of the bar of the US Supreme Court from 1975 until his death.
Edwin Kagin was a National Rifle Association of America Certified Handgun Instructor, an honorary Black belt in Kenpo karate, and an honorary Kentucky Colonel.
Edwin Kagin had four children, Stephen, Eric, Heather, and Kathryn, a stepdaughter, Caroline, and five grandchildren at the time of his death.