Trace Mitchell

Trace Mitchell serves as Lead Counsel for Technology and Free Expression Policy at FIRE, where he focuses on the intersection of free speech and emerging technology.

Before joining FIRE, Trace served as Deputy Chief Counsel of the House Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust and the Subcommittee on the Constitution. He has also served as General Counsel for Sen. Rand Paul, as a Litigation Fellow with the Institute for Justice, and as a law clerk for the Honorable Justice Biran of the Supreme Court of Maryland. Prior to his clerkship, Trace served as Policy Counsel for NetChoice, where he focused on issues surrounding the First Amendment, content moderation, and antitrust policy. Before that, he worked as a Research Associate for the Mercatus Center and as a Program Associate for the Liberty & Law Center at George Mason University.

His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Law360, InsideSources, The Hill, National Review, and various other publications nationwide.

Trace holds a B.A. in political science from Florida Gulf Coast University and a J.D. from George Mason University. He lives in Falls Church, Virginia with his wife and is a member of the D.C. bar.