Colten Stanberry

Colten Stanberry joined Becket as a Constitutional Law Fellow in 2022, where he has had the privilege of defending religious liberty at every level of the federal judiciary. Colten is admitted to the Texas, Oregon, and D.C. bars.

Before coming to Becket, Colten served as a law clerk to the Honorable Allison Jones Rushing of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Honorable Lavenski Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He also worked as an associate at a major U.S. law firm.

Colten earned his J.D. summa cum laude from the Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law, where he was the valedictorian of his class and elected to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Colten served as the editor in chief of the Pepperdine Law Review, the vice president of the law school’s Federalist Society chapter, a judicial extern to the Honorable Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and a Blackstone Fellow. Colten received his B.A. in History cum laude from Baylor University.

Colten enjoys reading books with his wife, chasing his toddler around the house, trying to train his golden retriever, and spending time with his church community.