10 Facts About Roger Severino

Roger Severino is currently a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributor on health policy, including abortion, to Project 2025.

Roger Severino received a bachelor's degree in business from University of Southern California, a Master of Public Administration from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

From 2008 to 2015, Roger Severino was a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.

Roger Severino was previously CEO and counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit law firm taking on cases related to freedom of religion.

In 2015, Roger Severino joined The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank geared towards public policy.

Roger Severino has written several opinion columns for The Daily Signal.

Roger Severino has written for Public Discourse: Ethics, Law, and the Common Good, a journal published by the Witherspoon Institute, a conservative think-tank.

In 2023, Roger Severino contributed abortion policies to the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, a plan prepared for an incoming Republican president.

Roger Severino was commissioned in January 2021, in the final days of Trump's presidency, and in February, filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the Biden administration offered him an ultimatum to resign or be terminated.

Since 2004 Roger Severino has been married to Carrie Roger Severino, an attorney and activist who leads the Judicial Crisis Network.