Michael Donnelly, JD, LLM

Mike previously served as HSLDA Senior Counsel as well as Director of Global Outreach. In those roles he served members in seven states and coordinated HSLDA’s support of homeschool freedom around the world. While at HSLDA, he also served as an adjunct professor of government at Patrick Henry College, where he taught constitutional law. 

Mike saw combat as a cavalry officer in the United States Army during the first Persian Gulf War. Before coming to HSLDA he worked in private legal practice and founded a nationally ranked internet marketing firm. He holds a juris doctor with honors from the Boston University School of Law as a Paul J. Liacos Scholar and an LLM with merit in Constitutional and Human Rights Law from the London School of Economics. He is a member of six federal and state bars. 

Mike is an internationally published writer and frequent speaker on homeschooling, educational freedom, parental rights, and human rights. His published work includes articles and chapters in The International Journal of Human Rights, Homeschooling in the 21st Century, International Journal of School Choice and Reform, Homeschooling in New View, Balancing Freedom, Autonomy, and Accountability in Education, Religious Freedom in Education, The International Journal of Religious Freedom, and Homeschooling in America and Europe: A Litmus Test of Democracy. 

Mike and his wife Patricia are homeschooling parents of seven children.