Mark Meador
American attorney and FTC Commissioner
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Mark Ross Meador (born March 16, 1985) is an American lawyer serving since April 2025 as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission.[1]
Mark Meador | |
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| Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission | |
| Assumed office April 16, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Lina Khan |
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| Born | March 16, 1985 Bloomington, Indiana, U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
| Education | University of Chicago (BA) University of Houston (JD) |
Early life
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]
Career
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]