Aaron Reitz

Aaron Reitz serves as the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy (OLP). OLP plans, develops, and coordinates the implementation of major policy initiatives of high priority to the Department and to the Administration. Additionally, OLP assists the Attorney General and White House Counsel in vetting, recommending, and preparing candidates for judicial judgeships. As Chief Regulatory Officer, Mr. Reitz also reviews and coordinates all regulations promulgated by the Department and all its components.

Prior to serving as Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Reitz was Senator Ted Cruz’s Chief of Staff. In that role, he oversaw domestic policy, legislative, communications, administrative, Senate Commerce Committee, Judiciary Committee, and Foreign Relations Committee teams, as well as a dozen regional offices throughout the State of Texas.

Before that, Mr. Reitz was Texas’s Deputy Attorney General for Legal Strategy under Attorney General Paxton. Mr. Reitz planned, staffed, and executed the Agency’s most consequential affirmative lawsuits and legal initiatives on matters including immigration, federal-state-local relations, election integrity, voting rights, Big Tech, consumer protection, energy, and the U.S. and Texas Constitutions

Mr. Reitz graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Texas A&M University, where he was a Regimental Commander in the Corps of Cadets. After graduating, he commissioned as an officer in the United States Marine Corps and married his high school sweetheart, Meredith. He spent nearly five years on active duty and deployed to the northern Helmand Province of Afghanistan.

After the Marines, Mr. Reitz attended the University of Texas School of Law, where he served as President of the Texas Federalist Society and Editor in Chief of the Texas Review of Law & Politics. He began his career at Bracewell LLP in Houston and then clerked for now-Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock on the Texas Supreme Court.

Mr. Reitz and his wife Meredith have four children: William, Caroline, Cecilia, and Georgia. He and his family are members of Saint Mary Cathedral in Austin, Texas.