James Gibson, a native of Butler, Ala., is the staff counsel for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. He works with the general counsel, K. Hollyn Hollman, to provide legal analysis on church-state issues that arise before Congress, the courts and administrative agencies. He is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar and the Alabama State Bar. 

Prior to joining the BJC, Gibson worked on the House Judiciary Committee staff of Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., and clerked for two district judges in Birmingham, Ala.

He holds degrees in political science from Samford University, where he was selected as his state's Harry S. Truman Scholar in 2002, and in law from the University of Alabama, where he was honored for outstanding study of Constitutional Law and competed on a national moot court team.  Gibson currently sits on the Truman Scholars Association Board of Directors.

Gibson and his wife, Jennie, live in Alexandria, Va.