Mark Chenoweth
President and General Counsel
NCLA’s President and General Counsel, Mark Chenoweth, has observed the administrative state up close and personal from perches in all four branches of the federal government. Mark served as the first chief of staff to Congressman Mike Pompeo, as legal counsel to Commissioner Anne Northup at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, as an attorney advisor in the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a law clerk to the Hon. Danny J. Boggs on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Mark has worked in several different roles in the private sector as well. He began his legal career in D.C. as a regulatory associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He then returned to his home state of Kansas to serve as in-house counsel for Koch Industries. Most recently he spent over four years as general counsel of the Washington Legal Foundation.
Mark is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Chicago Law School, where he co-founded the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship and became a Tony Patiño Fellow. Mark has been widely quoted and/or published in newspapers and websites including the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New Hampshire Union Leader, and Metropolitan Corporate Counsel. He has also had recurring op-eds in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, and at Forbes.com.
Latest Posts:
- Court-Packing Violates the Civil Liberties of Every American
- Executive Orders Create a Congress Divested of Power
- A Conversation About the Growing Number of Executive Orders
- The Constitutional Problem with Governing Through Executive Orders
- Out of the Separation-of-Powers Frying Pan and Into the Nondelegation Fire: How the Court’s Decision in Seila Law Makes CFPB’s Unlawful Structure Even Worse
- When The Wolf At The Door Is Your Governor
- Judge Sullivan Disregards Two Controlling Precedents By Appointing Amicus In Flynn Case
- Secret Laws for the Powerful
- Chief Justice Roberts Is Dead Wrong About Auer Deference
- Unless Fixed Now, Ninth Circuit Case Granting Immunity For Police Theft Will Prove Hard To Unwind
- Bump Stock Rule Puts Constitution In The Crosshairs
- NCLA Stands With Cato And IJ In Federal Lawsuit Against the SEC
- Forbes: Will Constitutional Defects With Administrative Law Judges Collapse The SEC’s House Of Cards?
- Lucia v. SEC | NCLA Files Suit Over Unconstitutional SEC Appointees
- Forbes: Florida Voters Join Chevron Revolt And Strike A Blow Against Judicial Bias