Thomas Glessner

Thomas Glessner is the president of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), a public interest law firm founded in 1993. NIFLA is committed to counsel and training for Pregnancy Resource Centers, PRCs and Pregnancy Medical Clinics, PMCs.
Mr. Glessner served as the executive director of the Christian Action Council (CAC, now Care Net, from 1987 to 1992, establishing legal guidelines and programs for training of hundreds of Board members and Directors of PRCs throughout the nation. centers. In the 1990s under his leadership, the CAC called for a boycott of a number of companies that supported Planned Parenthood, a provider of abortion services. Mr. Glessner has been influential in the pro-life movement. As the CEO of NIFLA, he has developed and implemented legal guidelines for PRCs, enabling them to convert their operations into licensed medical clinics and provide services, such as ultrasound.
Mr. Glessner is listed in 'Who's Who in American Law' and is the author of Achieving an Abortion Free America(Multnomah publishing 1990),Destiney's Team: A Story About Love, Choices and Eternity(Anomalos Publishing 2007),and a fiction novel, The Emerging Brave New World (Anomalos Publishing 2008).
Mr. Glessner graduated from the University of Washington, School of Law in Seattle in 1977 and practiced law in the Seattle area for ten years. As a practicing attorney, he used his legal ski8lls to represent and counsel pro-life organizations and Pregnancy Resource Centers(PRCs). He founded and led four Pregnancy Resource Centers in Seattle, Washington from 1981 to 1987.
Mr. Glessner is a member of the bar associations for the United States Supreme Court, the State of Virginia and the State of Washington. As such, he has filed several "friend of the court" briefs in cases of major significance to the pro-life movement in the United States Supreme Court. He also sits on the Board of Directors for the National Religious Prolife Coalition.