Benjamin C. Mizer

Benjamin C. Mizer currently serves as the Acting Associate Attorney General—the Department’s third-ranking official.  In that capacity, he supervises thirteen of the Department’s components, including all of its civil litigating and grantmaking components.  Specifically, Mr. Mizer oversees the Civil Division, Civil Rights Division, Antitrust Division, Tax Division, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Office of Justice Programs, Office on Violence Against Women, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office), Office for Access to Justice, Office of Information Policy, Community Relations Service, United States Trustees Program, and Foreign Claims Settlement Commission.

Mr. Mizer has served in a number of senior leadership roles in his many years of service at the Department under the Biden-Harris and Obama-Biden Administrations, including as Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, and Counselor to Attorney General Eric H. Holder.  He also previously served as the General Counsel of the United States Office of Personnel Management and as the Solicitor General for his home state of Ohio. 

In addition to his career in public service, Mr. Mizer was a partner in private practice, specializing in appellate and complex litigation.  He is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court. 

Mr. Mizer clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Judith W. Rogers on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and the College of Wooster.