Chief of Staff and Attorney Advisor, FTC Commissioner Mark Meador
John Ehrett is Chief of Staff and Attorney Advisor to FTC Commissioner Mark Meador. He previously served as Senior Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education and Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator Josh Hawley. Prior to that, he was an associate at Gibson Dunn and a law clerk to Judge James Ho on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Alex Kozinski on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Patrick Henry College.
Deputy General Counsel, Office of Texas Governor Greg Abbott
Trevor serves as General Counsel to Governor Greg Abbott. In that role he provides strategic counseling to the State’s Chief Executive Officer on a range of issues under both state and federal law, including litigation involving the Governor, appointments to state courts, clemency applications and executive orders, and draft legislation and administrative rules.
Before joining the Governor’s Office, Trevor litigated complex cases at every level of the state and federal judiciaries, both in private practice at Clement & Murphy in Washington, D.C., and in government service as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas. He twice clerked for Justice Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court of the United States. He also clerked for Judge Andrew Oldham on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and now-Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. For several years, Trevor taught as an adjunct professor a course on the writ of habeas corpus, with material covering the Suspension Clause, wartime detention, immigration, and post-conviction review.
He is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Kenyon College. He and his wife Khina live in Austin, Texas, with their son Ransom.
Chief Deputy Solicitor General, Florida Attorney General's Office
Jason Muehlhoff is Chief Deputy Solicitor General in the Florida Attorney General's Office. Prior to that, he was an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He previously served as a law clerk for the Honorable Lawrence VanDyke of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Mr. Muehlhoff graduated with Honors from Harvard Law School in 2021. While in law school, he served as the Articles Chair of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude from Biola University in 2016, where he studied Political Science and Theology.
United States Attorney, Northern District of Texas
Ryan R. Raybould was named the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas on November 17, 2025, by United States Attorney General Pam Bondi.
His appointment followed President Donald Trump’s nomination of Mr. Raybould on October 21, 2025, to serve a four-year term in this role. The President’s nomination of Mr. Raybould is currently pending United States Senate confirmation.
Mr. Raybould is now the chief federal law enforcement officer for the district, which covers 96,000 square miles and a population of approximately eight million, including those in Dallas, Fort Worth, Amarillo, Lubbock, Abilene, San Angelo, Wichita Falls, and surrounding areas. Mr. Raybould oversees roughly 220 attorneys and staff across five division offices and is responsible for all federal criminal prosecutions and civil litigation involving the United States government in the region.
Before his tenure as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Mr. Raybould was a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis in the Government, Regulatory, and Internal Investigations Practice Group.
Mr. Raybould previously served as a federal prosecutor with the Department of Justice for almost seven years, including as Deputy Chief of the White Collar and Public Corruption Unit in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. As a federal prosecutor, Mr. Raybould investigated and tried cases involving public corruption, tax fraud, securities fraud, cybercrime, national security, violent crime, money laundering and other white-collar crimes.
Mr. Raybould also served as Chief Counsel to former Assistant Majority Leader and U.S. Senator John Cornyn. As Chief Counsel to Senator Cornyn, Mr. Raybould helped draft and negotiate numerous pieces of legislation that became law on national security, government accountability and drug diversion control. Mr. Raybould also advised Sen. Cornyn’s work on the Judiciary Committee and the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control.
After receiving his J.D. from Notre Dame Law School, Mr. Raybould clerked for Chief United States District Judge Reed O'Connor of the Northern District of Texas. Mr. Raybould is a graduate of Yale University.
National Director of Public Policy, Human Coalition Action
Chelsey Youman, Esq., serves as the National Director of Public Policy for Human Coalition, working to save lives by advancing strategic pro-life policies through legislation, litigation, alliances, and communication.
In her role, Chelsey advocates for pro-life policies and jurisprudence; mobilizes and educates local grassroots to strengthen the pro-life movement and its footprint; and engages with the public to ultimately strengthen our culture’s desire to empower women and protect preborn children from abortion.
Chelsey holds deep relationships with policymakers and pro-life leaders across the country. Through these vital partnerships, Chelsey advocates for political action to affirm and advance strategic and constitutionally sound pro-life policies. She serves as an expert pro-life legal and strategic resource for some of the most impactful pro-life legislation in decades.
For example, Chelsey leads multiple statewide efforts to introduce and pass the Every Mother Matters Act – a pro-woman bill which would create a tangible system of support for at-risk women considering abortion. Chelsey also provided strategic legal, testimonial, messaging and advocacy assistance for the Texas Heartbeat Act, a law passed in May 2021 that prohibits abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Chelsey partners with key allies to support pro-life legal arguments in the federal and state court systems. For example, she posed novel arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade in July of 2021. Human Coalition Action partnered with Students for Life of America to file an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in the first challenge to Roe in 30 years—Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
During her time at Human Coalition Action, Chelsey also emerged as one of the leading voices in the media for the pro-life movement. Her analysis and op-eds run in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Washington Times, the National Review, and many others.
Prior to working at Human Coalition, Chelsey served as Senior Counsel and Chief of Staff for First Liberty Institute, concentrating on religious liberty matters and First Amendment rights. At First Liberty Institute, she litigated on behalf of and advised hundreds of clients regarding conscience rights nationwide. Chelsey also worked in private practice, where she successfully litigated corporate fraud matters, complex commercial litigation, and consumer rights issues in both federal and state courts.
Chelsey holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Texas A&M, and a J.D. from Southern Methodist University. Chelsey is happily married and has three children. Her family is active in their church, serving in the premarital and pro-life ministries there. They enjoy traveling, adventuring, and eating good food.
Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, Vanderbilt University Law School
Brian Fitzpatrick is the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, where his research focuses on class action litigation, federal courts, judicial selection, and constitutional law. He is best known for his empirical studies of class action settlements as well as his book The Conservative Case for Class Actions (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Professor Fitzpatrick joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2007 after serving as the John M. Olin Fellow at New York University School of Law. He graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School and went on to clerk for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. After his clerkships, Professor Fitzpatrick practiced commercial and appellate litigation for several years at Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C., and served as Special Counsel for Supreme Court Nominations to U.S. Senator John Cornyn. Before earning his law degree, Fitzpatrick graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's of science in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He has received the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award, which recognizes excellence in classroom teaching, for his Civil Procedure and Federal Courts courses.
Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, Vanderbilt University Law School
Brian Fitzpatrick is the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, where his research focuses on class action litigation, federal courts, judicial selection, and constitutional law. He is best known for his empirical studies of class action settlements as well as his book The Conservative Case for Class Actions (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Professor Fitzpatrick joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2007 after serving as the John M. Olin Fellow at New York University School of Law. He graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School and went on to clerk for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. After his clerkships, Professor Fitzpatrick practiced commercial and appellate litigation for several years at Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C., and served as Special Counsel for Supreme Court Nominations to U.S. Senator John Cornyn. Before earning his law degree, Fitzpatrick graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's of science in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He has received the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award, which recognizes excellence in classroom teaching, for his Civil Procedure and Federal Courts courses.
Chief Policy Advisor and Senior Legal Counsel, Office of Governor Kim Reynolds
Shareholder, Brick Gentry PC
Tom Levis is a shareholder of Brick Gentry P.C. and a member of the Firm’s executive committee. His practice emphasizes general civil litigation including personal injury law, as well as construction and real estate litigation, matrimonial and family law, and general business and business associations law. Tom has excellent mediation skills and provides mediation services through the district court mediation program.
Community service has been a central part of Tom’s career. In addition to serving on numerous boards within the legal industry, he has also volunteered his time to serve on the Polk County Conservation Board, the Mentor Iowa Board of Directors and the Foster Care Review Board. He has coached the Valley High School mock trial teams and frequently volunteers to serve as a judge for college mock trial competitions.
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Hon. Charles Eskridge, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and arrived in Houston, Texas, at the age of 11 with his parents in 1974.
Judge Eskridge received a B.S. from Trinity University and a J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law. He served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Charles Clark of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, as a law clerk to Justice Byron White of the Supreme Court of the United States, and as a special assistant to the Hon. Howard Holtzmann of the Iran/U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague.
From 1994 to 2019, Judge Eskridge was in private practice in Houston, Texas, litigating complex commercial disputes. He teaches Origins of the Federal Constitution at the University of Houston Law Center and has served as the Distinguished Visiting Practitioner of Law at the Pepperdine University School of Law.
President Donald J. Trump nominated him to the federal bench on May 3, 2019. Following confirmation by the Senate, Judge Eskridge took his seat on October 22, 2019.
Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, Vanderbilt University Law School
Brian Fitzpatrick is the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, where his research focuses on class action litigation, federal courts, judicial selection, and constitutional law. He is best known for his empirical studies of class action settlements as well as his book The Conservative Case for Class Actions (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Professor Fitzpatrick joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2007 after serving as the John M. Olin Fellow at New York University School of Law. He graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School and went on to clerk for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. After his clerkships, Professor Fitzpatrick practiced commercial and appellate litigation for several years at Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C., and served as Special Counsel for Supreme Court Nominations to U.S. Senator John Cornyn. Before earning his law degree, Fitzpatrick graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's of science in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He has received the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award, which recognizes excellence in classroom teaching, for his Civil Procedure and Federal Courts courses.
Chief Policy Advisor and Senior Legal Counsel, Office of Governor Kim Reynolds
Shareholder, Brick Gentry PC
Tom Levis is a shareholder of Brick Gentry P.C. and a member of the Firm’s executive committee. His practice emphasizes general civil litigation including personal injury law, as well as construction and real estate litigation, matrimonial and family law, and general business and business associations law. Tom has excellent mediation skills and provides mediation services through the district court mediation program.
Community service has been a central part of Tom’s career. In addition to serving on numerous boards within the legal industry, he has also volunteered his time to serve on the Polk County Conservation Board, the Mentor Iowa Board of Directors and the Foster Care Review Board. He has coached the Valley High School mock trial teams and frequently volunteers to serve as a judge for college mock trial competitions.
Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, Vanderbilt University Law School
Brian Fitzpatrick is the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, where his research focuses on class action litigation, federal courts, judicial selection, and constitutional law. He is best known for his empirical studies of class action settlements as well as his book The Conservative Case for Class Actions (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Professor Fitzpatrick joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2007 after serving as the John M. Olin Fellow at New York University School of Law. He graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School and went on to clerk for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. After his clerkships, Professor Fitzpatrick practiced commercial and appellate litigation for several years at Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C., and served as Special Counsel for Supreme Court Nominations to U.S. Senator John Cornyn. Before earning his law degree, Fitzpatrick graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's of science in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He has received the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award, which recognizes excellence in classroom teaching, for his Civil Procedure and Federal Courts courses.
Chief Policy Advisor and Senior Legal Counsel, Office of Governor Kim Reynolds
Shareholder, Brick Gentry PC
Tom Levis is a shareholder of Brick Gentry P.C. and a member of the Firm’s executive committee. His practice emphasizes general civil litigation including personal injury law, as well as construction and real estate litigation, matrimonial and family law, and general business and business associations law. Tom has excellent mediation skills and provides mediation services through the district court mediation program.
Community service has been a central part of Tom’s career. In addition to serving on numerous boards within the legal industry, he has also volunteered his time to serve on the Polk County Conservation Board, the Mentor Iowa Board of Directors and the Foster Care Review Board. He has coached the Valley High School mock trial teams and frequently volunteers to serve as a judge for college mock trial competitions.
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Hon. Charles Eskridge, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and arrived in Houston, Texas, at the age of 11 with his parents in 1974.
Judge Eskridge received a B.S. from Trinity University and a J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law. He served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Charles Clark of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, as a law clerk to Justice Byron White of the Supreme Court of the United States, and as a special assistant to the Hon. Howard Holtzmann of the Iran/U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague.
From 1994 to 2019, Judge Eskridge was in private practice in Houston, Texas, litigating complex commercial disputes. He teaches Origins of the Federal Constitution at the University of Houston Law Center and has served as the Distinguished Visiting Practitioner of Law at the Pepperdine University School of Law.
President Donald J. Trump nominated him to the federal bench on May 3, 2019. Following confirmation by the Senate, Judge Eskridge took his seat on October 22, 2019.
Senior Legal Fellow, the Meese Institute for the Rule of Law, Advancing American Freedom
Paul J. Larkin is a Senior Legal Fellow in the Meese Institute for the Rule of Law at Advancing American Freedom. Paul has held various positions in the federal and state governments throughout his career, such as being an attorney in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, Special Agent-in-Charge and Acting Director of the Criminal Investigation Division at the Environmental Protection Agency, and a member of the Parole Abolition and Sentencing Reform Commission and of the Juvenile Justice Reform Commission in the Office of Virginia Governor George Allen.
He has also worked at Verizon Communications and two law firms in Washington, D.C. His current research is principally in the fields of drug policy, criminal justice policy, and administrative law and policy. He has published numerous articles in law and public policy journals, both in print and online.
Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law
David Min is a nationally recognized expert on financial markets regulation, and his research interests focus on the law and policy of banking, real estate finance, and capital markets.
Before joining the faculty of UCI Law, Professor Min spent over a decade working in financial regulatory law and policy, including as a staff attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission, as an associate in the Securities Litigation practice group of the Washington, DC, law firm WilmerHale, as Banking Committee counsel for Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), and as the senior policy advisor and counsel for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. Professor Min was most recently the Associate Director for Financial Markets Policy at the Center for American Progress, a policy think tank, where he oversaw the efforts of the Mortgage Finance Working Group, a collection of leading mortgage market experts responsible for, among other things, one of the leading proposals on housing finance reform that was described by the Wall Street Journal as “influential” and “one of the most detailed road maps yet for the creation of a housing-finance structure to succeed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”
Professor Min is regularly quoted on financial markets and housing finance issues, including in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Reuters, Associated Press and Bloomberg, and is a frequent contributor to radio and television programs, including NPR’s Marketplace, the Diane Rehm Show, CNBC and Fox News. Professor Min is often asked to speak at local and national events.
Professor Min holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and received his undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and School of Arts and Sciences, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
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