Fred Edwords

Fred Edwords, born July 19, 1948, in San Diego, California, is an agnostic[1] or ignostic[2] humanist leader in Washington DC.

Edwords was also editor of the association's membership newsletter Free Mind from 2002 to 2006 and the Creation/Evolution journal from 1980 to 1991.

He later worked as director of planned giving for their endowment fund, the Humanist Foundation.

[8] On August 7, 1985, he became a co-plaintiff in the successful U.S. District Court lawsuit, Asimov v. United States, against the U.S. Department of Education, brought by the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.

As of 2019, Edwords was one of the plaintiffs in a case that started in 2014 as American Humanist Association et al v. Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, a federal lawsuit on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court that is aimed at removing a 40 foot tall Latin cross on public property in Bladensburg, Maryland.