Evan Wolfson

Evan Wolfson is the leading advocate of same-sex marriage. He is Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, a gay and non-gay partnership working on marriage equality.
Wolfson served as the project director for Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund and was co-counsel in the Hawaii marriage case and lead attorney in important gay rights and HIV/AIDS cases.

Wolfson served as Associate Counsel in the Iran/Contra investigation. He is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School.

Wolfson represented James Dale before the U.S. Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale. In 2000, The National Law Journal named Wolfson one of "the 100 most influential lawyers in America." In 2004, he was on Time Magazine's list of "the 100 most influential people in the world." Wolfson is the author of Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry.