About David L. Barkey
David Barkey serves as the Anti-Defamation League’s National Religious Freedom Counsel and Southeastern Area Counsel.
As National Religious Freedom Counsel, Mr. Barkey oversees the Anti-Defamation League’s National Religious Freedom portfolio. His responsibilities include addressing complex national legal, legislative, and public policy issues relating to the separation of church and state, free exercise of religion, and religious discrimination.
In the position of Southeastern Area Counsel, he provides legal, legislative and public affairs counsel to three regional offices covering eight states on issues including, discrimination, hate crimes, bullying, extremism, and free speech. In Florida, Mr. Barkey also serves as ADL’s registered lobbyist in the state legislature.
Mr. Barkey previously served as ADL’s Associate Director of Legal Affairs based out of its national office in New York City where he primarily addressed religious freedom and discrimination issues.
He joined ADL in 2001 as its Midwest Area Counsel based in Chicago, IL.
Prior to joining ADL, Mr. Barkey served as a Trial Attorney at the New York District Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission where he specialized in federal employment discrimination litigation. He also worked as an associate at the national law firm of Jackson Lewis where he specialized in labor and employment law. Mr. Barkey received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and B.A. from Northwestern University. He is admitted to practice law in Florida, Connecticut, and New York.
