Erin Hawley

Erin Morrow Hawley (born 1979 or 1980) is an American lawyer and the wife of Senator Josh Hawley. She is known for her conservative political work and her affiliation with Lex Politica and Alliance Defending Freedom.

Education Hawley attended Texas A&M University, where she studied animal science. After college, she interned for the House Committee on Agriculture which led to her interest in regulatory law. She attended Yale Law School,

Legal career She currently serves as Chair of the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice at Lex Politica, while remaining Of Counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom.

Hawley previously worked as a law clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts as well as for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson.

Hawley opposes abortion. Hawley was part of the team that work on the landmark case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), which overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. She was involved in another Supreme Court case, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis (2023).

In 2014, Hawley wrote an amicus brief on behalf of the Independent Women’s Forum, a conservative women's organization, for landmark case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby in favor of the organization’s owners who refused to offer contraception coverage to their employees for religious reasons. She also wrote amicus briefs for two Supreme Court cases: Zubik v. Burwell (2016) and Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue (2020). They married in 2010. The Hawleys have three children.

Hawley is Christian. In 2018 she authored a devotional book on motherhood Living Beloved: Lessons From My Little Ones About the Heart of God, wherein she draws spiritual lessons from her children as well as modern theologians."