Frank LoMonte

Frank D. LoMonte is a First Amendment lawyer, educator, researcher and advocate. He currently serves as legal counsel to CNN. Prior to that, he headed the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, a First Amendment think tank at the University of Florida. He also served as executive director of the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) from 2008-2017. He has worked as a lawyer in every sector — government, private practice, nonprofit and education — after a career as an investigative reporter and political columnist. He has published more than 30 research papers about free-press and open-government topics in scholarly journals. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, from which he graduated in 2000 with high honors.