2026 Good Counselor fellow

Erik Janss

I am the Senior Manager of Legal Services at FOCUS. I grew up in Maryland playing baseball and raising pigs. I earned my bachelor’s in math and computer science from La Salle University where I also played baseball. I went to Law School at Drake University in Des Moines, IA. During my first year of law school I converted to Catholicism and got involved with FOCUS. Upon graduating my wife and I became FOCUS missionaries. We served two years at Minnesota State University in Mankato, MN. We now live in Golden Colorado and just welcomed our first born in late 2025.