Mark Meador | |
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| Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission | |
| Assumed office April 16, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Lina Khan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 16,1985 Bloomington,Indiana,U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
| Education | University of Chicago (BA) University of Houston (JD) |
Mark Ross Meador (born March 16,1985) is an American lawyer serving since April 2025 as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. [1]
Meador was born on March 16,1985,in Bloomington,Indiana. [2] He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and from the University of Houston Law Center in 2011 with a Juris Doctor degree. [3] [4] Meador,a Republican,is a member of the Federalist Society. [3] [5]
Meador focuses on antitrust law,having gained an interest from a class he took at Houston. [4] He worked for a time in the office of the Texas Attorney General and after he graduated from Houston,he worked from 2011 to 2016 as an attorney in the FTC's Bureau of Competition. [4] [6] From 2016 to 2019,Meador was in private practice at the law firm Paul,Weiss,Rifkind,Wharton &Garrison. [5] [7]
Meador joined the United States Department of Justice in 2019 as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division,where he served two years. [5] [8] He then joined the office of Utah U.S. Senator Mike Lee,where he held the position of Deputy Chief Counsel for Antitrust and Competition Policy. [5] [9] He worked for Lee,the minority leader of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee,until 2023. [9] During his time in Lee's office,Meador drafted a bill for Lee that would have required Google's ad tech business to break up. [5] After his tenure with Lee's office,he became a partner with Kressin Law Group,then renamed Kressin Meador LLC. [9]
On December 10,2024,President-elect Donald Trump announced he was nominating Meador to serve as a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission. His nomination was confirmed by the Senate on April 11,2025. [10]
Bloomberg Law has described Meador as "a pro-enforcement,populist Republican,particularly when it comes to the technology industry." [5]
Meador and his wife,Adrienne Lee Meador,have six children. [11] [12]