Adjunct Professor of Government
John Ehrett
Educational Background:
S.T.M., Institute of Lutheran Theology
M.A.R., Institute of Lutheran Theology
J.D., Yale Law School
B.A., Government (International Politics and Policy), Patrick Henry College
Email: jsehrett@phc.edu
Time at PHC: 2026 to present
Professor Ehrett is a practicing attorney in Washington, D.C., specializing in political and appellate law. He earned his bachelor’s degree in government (IPP track) from Patrick Henry College, his Master of Arts in Religion and Master of Sacred Theology degrees from the Institute of Lutheran Theology, and his law degree from Yale Law School. Upon graduation, he served as a law clerk to Judge Alex Kozinski and Judge James C. Ho on the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Fifth Circuits, respectively. Most recently, he worked as chief of staff and attorney advisor to Commissioner Mark Meador at the Federal Trade Commission, senior counsel at the U.S. Department of Education, and chief counsel to U.S. Senator Josh Hawley on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he also served as lead Republican counsel for the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law.
Professor Ehrett maintains an active research and writing practice, with a particular focus on postliberalism, tradition, and the relationship between modernity and secularity. His legal scholarship has been published by the Yale Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, Journal of Law and Politics, Texas Review of Law and Politics, and many other venues, and his theological scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Classical Theology, Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology, Verba Vitae, and elsewhere. He is the author of the books Martin Luther’s Theology of Antitrust (Davenant Press, 2025), and Dynamic Kingdoms: Gudina Tumsa’s Postsecular Political Theology (Weidner Institute, forthcoming 2026), and regularly writes for a wide variety of periodicals including First Things, The New Atlantis, Plough, American Affairs, and the Claremont Review of Books.
Professor Ehrett and his wife Mackenzi (a fellow PHC graduate) live in Alexandria, Virginia, with their three children.