Benjamin N. Hazelwood is a Madison Fellow at Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He assists Americans United attorneys with church-state cases at trial and on appeal.
Mr. Hazelwood joined Americans United as a Madison Fellow in September 2011. Prior to that, he spent his final year of law school as a Legal Intern for Americans United. In May 2011, Mr. Hazelwood graduated with highest honors from The George Washington University Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. Upon graduation, he received the Willard Waddington Gatchell Award (given to the three graduates with the highest cumulative averages) and the Jennie Hassler Walburn award (given to one member of the graduating class for excellence in the study of civil procedure). During law school, Mr. Hazelwood served as an Articles Editor for the George Washington Law Review. Mr. Hazelwood graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Philosophy from Northeastern University in 2008. Mr. Hazelwood is admitted to practice in New York only. He is supervised by Ayesha N. Khan, a member of the D.C. Bar.