Patrick A. Trueman

Patrick A. Trueman is an American attorney and anti-pornography activist who served as president of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) from 2010 to 2023, though he continued to serve on the board for the NCOSE afterwords.^[1] He previously worked as the director of government affairs for the American Family Association, as a legal counsel for the Family Research Council and as the executive director of the Americans United for Life.^[2][3][4] Trueman was the Chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Criminal Division at the US Department of Justice from 1988 to 1993.^[5] During his tenure, the George H. W. Bush administration aggressively prosecuted obscenity cases against adult pornography.^[6] The ABA Journal dubs him a "porn war veteran".^[6] He took over at NCOSE in 2010 when it was a struggling organization known as Morality in Media, and during his tenure the organization started initiatives such as the "Dirty Dozen List" and the NCOSE Law Center.^[1]

Personal life

Trueman is Catholic^[7][8] lives in North Carolina with his wife Laura Clay. They are the parents of three adult children.^[5]