Meador was in the running to be a minority party member on the FTC under President Joe Biden.
US President-elect Donald Trump has selected Mark Meador, a former staffer to Utah Senator Mike Lee, to be a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission, the agency responsible for competition and consumer protection enforcement.
Meador is a veteran of both the FTC and the Justice Department’s antitrust division, and spent three years advising Lee, the ranking Republican on the Senate antitrust subcommittee, before starting a law firm with a former colleague of the department’s outgoing antitrust head, Jonathan Kanter. Meador also worked with Kanter at the Paul Weiss law firm.
