Doha Mekki

After working in a New York City-based law firm after graduating law school, she joined the Department of Justice Antitrust Division in 2015.^[8] During the Trump administration, Mekki worked under Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, where she focused on labor market issues.^[9]

Mekki was selected to serve as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division in 2022.^[10] At the time of her appointment, she had served a total of seven years at the DOJ, where she worked on issues including no-hire pacts and illegal wage-fixing. Politico reported in 2022 that she was "often described by people within the agency as "brilliant" and a "rising star".^[11]

In this role, Mekki worked alongside Kanter to prepare the department's antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster.^[12][13] She additionally worked on cases including the DOJ's antitrust suit against the JetBlue - Spirit Airlines merger.^[2] The New York Times reported in 2023 that Mekki helped "quarterback" the United States v. Google antitrust lawsuit and was expected to be in the courtroom daily during the trial.^[14]

In her position, she argued that antitrust enforcers should have a "bias towards action" approach towards reining in anti-competitive behavior, arguing that past enforcers had been too lenient when scrutinizing antitrust violations.^[15] Mekki has argued that antitrust enforcers should make promoting competition in labor markets a priority.^[16]

Following Kanter's resignation, she became acting Assistant Attorney General, with the expectation that she would serve in the position for the remainder of the Biden administration.^[17] In this position, she launched an antitrust lawsuit against landlords over unlawful rent price collusion.^[18][19]

In 2025, she became a senior fellow at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice.^[20]

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