Joe Infranco

Joseph P. Infranco serves as an associate pastor at Highlands Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, He is also an attorney who has been involved in hundreds of cases dealing with religious freedoms, including some concluded at the US Supreme Court.

As an attorney, he has testified on religious freedom issues before the US Congress, the US Commission on Civil Rights, state and local legislative bodies, and has been a frequent lecturer at professional and bar association groups. Joe finished his legal career at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), where he served 18 years as a senior attorney and Vice President of Alliance Coordination. While there, he oversaw and trained an attorney network that grew to 3,200 attorneys nationally at his departure in 2020.

Joe's pastoral focus is teaching, apologetics and helping the Church to respond to cultural issues. He has been a frequent speaker at church and ministry conferences and still serves as an advisor to nonprofits. His pastoral role recently took him into the world of special needs ministry, where he is passionate to help serve affected families. He is the author of Decoding Cody, which tells about young men and women with "non-speaking autism" who see into the spiritual dimension.

He and his wife, Valerie, reside in Scottsdale and have three grown children and five grandchildren.