K. Hollyn Hollman

K. Hollyn Hollman is General Counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs (BJC). She is a member of the District of Columbia and Tennessee bars. Ms. Hollman graduated with honors from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in Politics and received her J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where she was a member of the National Moot Court Team and the Tennessee Law Review.

Prior to joining the BJC, Ms. Hollman practiced employment law as a litigator with the firms of McGuireWoods LLP in Washington, D.C., and Waller Landsden Dortch & Davis in Nashville, Tennessee.

Ms. Hollman is a native of Jackson, Mississippi, and now resides in Arlington, Virginia. Her husband, James McCall Smith, is a professor of political science and international affairs at The George Washington University.

The BJC is a 65-year-old, Washington, D.C.-based religious liberty organization that works to defend and extend God-given religious liberty for all, bringing a uniquely Baptist witness to the principle that religion must be freely exercised, neither advanced nor inhibited by government.