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Nathan Shackelford, JD

Nathan Shackelford, JD

Director of Development | Associate General Counsel | Director of the Institute’s F3 Initative

Nathan Shackelford serves as First Liberty Institute’s Associate General Counsel and also is the Director of the Institute’s F3 initiative.

Nathan obtained his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Texas A&M University before obtaining his Juris Doctorate at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law. At SMU, Nathan focused on contracts and transactional related matters which he uses as his role at First Liberty. Nathan is also a speaker and often presents in front of large audiences throughout the country. In his role as the Director of the F3 Initiative, Nathan focuses on educating, equipping, and empowering those in their 20’s to 40’s on their religious freedom rights so that they can help protect their families and communities.

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F3 Initiative

The Future of Faith and Freedom Right now, there’s a war over culture itself and we’ve been told that we can’t make a difference. That we should gi...

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September 18, 2026
Penna Dexter

Explaining NEET

A young conservative Anglican, who goes by the pseudonym Crier in the Wilderness, has an essay at Virtue Online that attempts to explain a category of young men who are not in a good place. They are N...

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Kerby Anderson

Birth Tourism

Although the Supreme Court reaffirmed that birthright citizenship is constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, there is the related issue of birth tourism. Unfortunately, the media tends to confl...

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September 17, 2026
Kerby Anderson

Message to Students

Emily Austin recently spoke at the Christians United for Israel conference. She had a message for the students protesting America and calling for revolution.  First, she asked them if they “have an...

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