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Thomas A. Glessner is the founder and President of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), a public interest law firm founded in 1993 and committed to legal counsel and training for pregnancy help centers. NIFLA represents more than 1,050 pregnancy help centers in all 50 states. Mr. Glessner graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle in 1977 and practiced law in the Seattle area for ten years. As a practicing attorney he used his legal skills to represent and counsel pro-life organizations, including pregnancy help centers. He founded and led four pregnancy help centers in Seattle, Washington from 1981 to 1987. Mr. Glessner was the president and CEO of the Christian Action Counsel (now CareNet) from 1987 to 1992 establishing legal guidelines and programs for the training of hundreds of board members and directors of pregnancy help centers throughout the nation. As the CEO of NIFLA Mr. Glessner has developed and implemented legal guidelines for pregnancy help centers to enable them to convert their operations into licensed medical clinics and provide for abortion-minded clients' medical service such as ultrasound. Thomas A. Glessner is listed in Who's Who In American Law and is the author of an influential book, Achieving An Abortion Free America (Multnomah Press). He is also the author of a recent article published by the Law Review for the Regent University School of Law entitled, "Curbing Raw Judicial Power: A Proposal For A Checks and Balances Amendment." Mr. Glessner is a member of the bar associations for the United States Supreme Court, the State of Virginia and the State of Washington. As such, he has filed several friend of the court briefs in cases of major significance to the pro-life movement in the United States Supreme Court. Thomas Glessner is the author of Destiny's Team: A Story About Love, Choices and Eternity (Anomalos Publishing 2007), a novel, and The Emerging Brave New World (Anomalos Publishing 2008), a nonfiction work. Mr. Glessner and his wife, Laura, live in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and have four children — Joshua, SaraLynn, Brannan and Jefferson.
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All text and images in this website copyright © 2007 by NIFLA.
For information on becoming a NIFLA member, please contact Thomas Glessner
at NIFLA by e-mail at tglessner@nifla.org or by phone at (540) 372-3930.