Kasdin Mitchell

On May 11, 2026, President Trump nominated Kasdin Mitchell to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

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Biography

Mitchell attended Yale University and Yale Law School, graduating with a B.A. in 2007 and a J.D. in 2012.

Legal Experience

Kasdin Mitchell is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis. Prior to working at Kirkland, Mitchell clerked for Justice Thomas and Judge William H. Pryor Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She also served as the Assistant Solicitor General for the State of Alabama.

Before law school, Mitchell worked as the Assistant Press Secretary to First Lady Laura Bush. She also served as spokesperson for the Office of Fossil Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she worked on issues related to oil, gas and coal.

Key Facts and Context 

• In 2017, served as a John Marshall Fellow for the Claremont Institute, a far-right think tank whose former fellows include Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec; John Eastman, who played an instrumental role in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election by arguing that then-Vice President Pence had the authority to alter electoral votes; and Russell Vought, who was the chief architect of Project 2025 and is currently the director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

• Represented the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen (2022), one of the most consequential and controversial Second Amendment cases in U.S. history.

• Defended Big Tech companies in Rogalinski v. Meta (9th Cir. 2023) and Moody v. Netchoice (2024), in which she fought to limit an individuals’ free speech rights while arguing for an expansion of corporations’ First Amendment rights.

• Co-authored a white paper concerning agency action, Chevron deference, and the major questions doctrine for the Washington Legal Foundation, a far-right organization that filed an amicus brief arguing for the elimination of Chevron deference in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024).

• Clerked for arch-conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and wrote letters of support for some of Trump’s most controversial second-term judicial nominees, including Whitney Hermandorfer (Sixth Circuit), Joshua Divine (Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri), Edmund LaCour (Northern District of Alabama), David Alan Bragdon (Middle District of North Carolina), and Brian Charles Lea (Western District of Tennessee).