Brooke R. Hardy is a Madison Fellow at Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Before joining Americans United in October 2011, Ms. Hardy spent three years in private practice in Atlanta, first as an intellectual property litigation associate with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP and then as an appellate litigation associate with Greenberg Traurig LLP.
She received her B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Florida in 2001 and her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2007.  During law school, Ms. Hardy was elected to Order of the Coif, served as Senior Research Editor for the Florida Law Review, was awarded Outstanding Brief at the Duberstein Moot Court Competition, and received a UF Research Fellowship.  After law school, she clerked for Judge Ed Carnes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Ms. Hardy is an active member of the State Bar of Georgia, and she is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.  She is not admitted to the District of Columbia bar, and she is supervised by Ayesha N. Khan, a member of the D.C. Bar.