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Hannah Clayson Smith (born 1973) is an American civil rights attorney. Smith is a lawyer with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. She has been a lawyer with the Becket Fund since 2007. She was part of the legal team for Supreme Court cases such as ''Burwell v. Hobby Lobby'', ''Holt v. Hobbs'', and ''Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC''. Smith was raised in California. She has a bachelor's degree from Princeton University. While there she took at least one class from Robert George, who she counts as a mentor. She has a law degree from the Brigham Young University (BYU) J. Reuben Clark Law School. Her husband, John M. Smith, is also a lawyer and they studied at the BYU law school at the same time, in part because her husband had met Cole Durham, who they worked extensively with in his International Religious Freedom Institute at BYU. While at BYU, the Smiths were the moving force behind starting the monthly Spirit of the Law Devotionals, where law professors would give religious speeches related to the law. Smith was one of the key initial organizers of BYU's International Law and Religion Conference. Smith is a Latter-day Saint and served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the Switzerland Geneva Mission, which covered parts of Switzerland and France. She was a law clerk for both Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. In the case of Alito, she clerked for him both while he was a judge on the 3rd Circuit and while he was a Supreme Court justice. Prior to joining the Beckett Fund, Smith was in private practice where she worked on occasion as outside counsel for religious organizations such as the LDS Church and the Roman Catholic Church. Smith has served on the ''Deseret News'' editorial advisory board. Smith was on the inaugural panel of Stanford Law School's religious freedom clinic.〔(article about Stanford Religious Freedom clinic )〕 Smith and her husband are the parents of four children. They met when she accompanied the female Mormon missionaries serving in the area covering Princeton to teach John. He was baptized into the LDS Church two years later, and they married after they had both served missions. Her husband also served as an associate White House counsel from 2006 to 2009. He is an expert on cyber security and also the intersection of religious liberty and international law. After leaving the white house in 2009 he became Raytheon Company's first cyber security lawyer.〔(Stanford announcement of John M. Smith being a speaker )〕〔(Elizabethtown College bio of John M. Smith )〕 John M. Smith is a great-grandson of George Albert Smith but his family had left the church in the intervening generations.〔(Francis M. Gibbons and Daniel Bay Gibbons, ''A Gathering of Eagles'' (Lincoln, Nebfraska: IUniverse, 2002), p. 35 )〕 Smith is the sister of Jane Clayson Johnson. ==Notes== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hannah Clayson Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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