Melissa Holyoak | |
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| Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission | |
| Assumed office March 25, 2024 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Christine S. Wilson |
| Solicitor General of Utah | |
| In office September 2020 –March 2024 | |
| Attorney General | Sean Reyes |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Republican |
| Children | 4 |
| Education | University of Utah (BA,JD) |
Melissa Holyoak is an American lawyer who is serving as a member of the Federal Trade Commission. [1]
Holyoak earned her B.A. from the University of Utah. [2] She attended the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law,where she was an editor of the Utah Law Review. She graduated in 2003 with a Juris Doctor degree and Order of the Coif membership. [2]
Holyoak served in positions as a public interest attorney with the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Center for Class Action Fairness. [2] She also worked as an associate with O'Melveny &Myers. [2] Holyoak was a litigator with much of her twenty years of practice focused on consumer protection. [2] Holyoak served as president and general counsel of Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute,a Washington,D.C.-based public interest firm representing consumers challenging unfair class actions and regulatory overreach. [2] Holyoak was one of the successful petitioners in the 2019 Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos . [3]
In September 2020, [4] Holyoak became the Utah Solicitor General with the Utah Attorney General’s Office,where she manages the civil appeals,criminal appeals,constitutional defense and special litigation,and antitrust and data privacy divisions. [2] In that capacity,she oversees merger reviews,data privacy and antitrust enforcement actions,and provides leadership in consumer protection matters. [2] A Republican,Holyoak was nominated by U.S. president Joe Biden in July 2023 to serve as a member of the Federal Trade Commission. [5] Her nomination was confirmed by the Senate on March 7,2024. [6]
Holyoak lives in Utah with her husband and four children. [2]
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