A Good Offense
Dr. Michael P. Farris is chancellor of Patrick Henry College and chairman and general counsel of the Home School Legal Defense Association. Since founding HSLDA in 1983, Dr. Farris has used his extensive experience in both politics and appellate litigation to defend parental rights and help grow the organization to over 80,000 member families with a staff of 60. As a constitutional attorney, Dr. Farris has argued before the United States Supreme Court, seven U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, and 10 State Supreme Courts.
In 2000, Dr. Farris became the founding president of another unique educational venture: Patrick Henry College. PHC is a four-year Christian college with the mission of training students through a classical liberal arts curriculum and apprenticeship methodology to impact the world “for Christ and for Liberty.” PHC provides academically excellent, baccalaureate-level higher education from a biblical worldview. After serving as president of PHC for six academic years, Dr. Farris transitioned into the role of chancellor. He continues to teach constitutional law and coach the PHC Moot Court team. His teams won the national American Collegiate Moot Court Association championships in 2005, 2006, 2009, and 2010, and defeated Oxford University before two of the highest judges in Britain, and in a repeat match before the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Dr. Farris is an honors graduate of Gonzaga University School of Law (Juris Doctor, 1976), where he was the articles editor of the law review and the winner of the Linden Cup Moot Court competition. In recognition of his work in home education, Education Week has named Dr. Farris one of the “Top 100 Faces in Education of the 20th Century.” The Heritage Foundation awarded him its Salvatori Award for American Citizenship in 2002.
Dr. Farris was interviewed by senior editor for The New AmericanWilliam F. Jasper in February at the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Farris was a speaker and panelist.
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