Support the Annual Red Mass    Donate

  • Events
  • October Speaker - Dana Cody, President, Life Legal Defense Foundation

October Speaker - Dana Cody, President, Life Legal Defense Foundation

  • 10/16/2013
  • 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Jilio-Ryan Court Reporters, 14661 Franklin Ave, Ste 15, Tustin, CA 92780


Dana Cody
President, Executive Director
Life Legal Defense Foundation

Active Killing:  What the Law Allows

From Robert Wendland to Terri Schiavo, the past several decades have seen a proliferation of conflicts regarding whether or not to provide life-sustaining care to certain individuals. These controversies have been fueled by conflicting ideologies and cultural forces and the acceptance of the belief that hastening death is an acceptable form of “treatment.” Learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones from a hastened death on October 16th at the St. Thomas More Society monthly lunch.

Dana Cody, an attorney with the Life Legal Defense Foundation, will address the issue of protecting the innocent and disabled from the threat of forced death, which will bring practical insight on how to protect and defend yourself and your loved ones.  Ms. Cody presented a continuing legal education on this issue earlier this year. The course is available for continuing legal education credit at http://lldf.org/cle/active-killing-what-the-law-allows/.

Dana Cody has been championing the rights of women and the unborn for over twenty years. She started as a lay-counselor to women in crisis pregnancies, then fulfilled her passion to protect women and children victimized by abortion by obtaining her Juris Doctor from Western State University in 1993.

After graduating from law school, she accepted a post-graduate fellowship with the Rutherford Institute, organized to protect religious liberty and free speech rights. Ms. Cody immediately passed the bar and continued as staff counsel for Rutherford Institute’s Western Regional Office.

After leaving her position as staff counsel, she went to work as a consultant to the Assembly Education Committee, then chaired by pro-life Assembly Member Steve Baldwin. Assemblyman Baldwin was a member of the Assembly Health Committee, which allowed Ms. Cody to consult Mr. Baldwin on life issues.

In 1996, Ms. Cody accepted the invitation to serve as a board member of Life Legal Defense Foundation. After leaving her consulting position she accepted the position as Life Legal’s Executive Director.

Ms. Cody was co-counsel in People’s Advocate v. ICOC, a suit challenging the constitutionality of the Governing Board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to fund human embryonic stem cell research.

Ms. Cody served as an adjunct professor at Trinity Law School in Santa Ana, California, having taught the course The Right to Life and the Law. She also served as a Judge Pro Tem for the Sacramento Superior Court at the Carol Miller Justice Center.

Dana Cody lives in the Jacksonville, Florida area with her husband, Doug, a PGA teaching professional. She has one son, Jeffrey Townsend, who serves in the United States Navy. He resides in Florida with his wife Jennifer, and their children, Evan and Kiley.


Location:

Jilio-Ryan Court Reporters (Map)
14661 Franklin Ave, Ste 15
Tustin, CA  92780
800-424-9902

Time:

Lunch begins at 11:45.  Talk begins at 12:00 Sharp!

Your $15 contribution helps cover our costs in bringing you these monthly speaker engagements.

Join us on the third Wednesday of each month for more great talks and Catholic fellowship. 

Contact us

Kathya Firlik, Esq. | President

Email: president@stthomasmore.net

Join us 

The St. Thomas More Society of Orange County invites the Catholic legal community to join the society.  Catholic attorneys, judges, law students, and those who work in the legal community and provide professional services to attorneys are encouraged to join in Catholic camaraderie as together we face the challenges of being the face of Christ in the midst of the secular world.  

Join The St. Thomas More Society of Orange County

The St. Thomas More Society of Orange County, California, is an independent organization sponsored by lawyers and judges who are practicing members of the Roman Catholic Church. Its purpose is to encourage Catholic lawyers to live out their Christian vocation by sanctifying their daily work.

Copyright 2012. St. Thomas More Society of Orange County, California.  All rights reserved

Powered by Wild Apricot Membership Software