List of members of the Federal Trade Commission

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The following is a list of individuals who have served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) beginning in 1949.{{Cite web|title=Commissioners and Chairmen of the Federal Trade Commission|url=http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/history/commisionerchartlegal.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512031437/http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/history/commisionerchartlegal.pdf|archive-date=May 12, 2013|publisher=Federal Trade Commission|df=mdy-all}}

Current commissioners

The commission is headed by five commissioners, who each serve seven-year terms. Commissioners are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. No more than three commissioners can be of the same political party. In practice, this means that two commissions are of the opposition party. However, three members of the FTC throughout its history have been without party affiliation, with the most recent independent, Pamela Jones Harbour, serving from 2003 to 2009.{{Cite web|title=Independent commissioners have shaped key FTC decisions - FTCWatch|url=https://www.mlexwatch.com/articles/2697/print?section=ftcwatch|access-date=2021-09-11|website=www.mlexwatch.com}}

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!Portrait

!Name

!Party

!Prior experience

!Education

!Term began

!{{nowrap|Term expires}}

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! Andrew Ferguson

(Chair)

| {{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|Solicitor general of the Commonwealth of Virginia

|University of Virginia (BA)

University of Virginia (JD)

|{{dts|April 2, 2024}}

|{{dts|September 26, 2030}}

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!Rebecca Slaughter

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|Legal advisor to Senator Chuck Schumer

|Yale University (BA)

Yale Law School (JD)

|{{dts|May 2, 2018}}

|{{dts|September 26, 2029}}

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!Alvaro Bedoya

| {{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|Director of the Center on Privacy and Technology at the Georgetown University Law Center

|Harvard College (BA)

Yale Law School (JD)

|{{dts|May 16, 2022}}

|{{dts|September 26, 2026}}

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!Melissa Holyoak

| {{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|Solicitor general of Utah

|University of Utah (BA)

University of Utah (JD)

|{{dts|March 25, 2024}}

|{{dts|September 26, 2025}}

!Vacant

|{{dts|September 26, 2031}}

Former commissioners

The following is a list of individuals who have served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) beginning in 1949, including party affiliation.

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!Commissioners

!Party

!Years in office

!Prior experience

John J. Carson

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican{{Cite web|title=Khan unlikely to face confirmation fight for FTC post - FTCWatch|url=https://www.mlexwatch.com/articles/11430/print?section=ftcwatch|access-date=2021-09-12|website=www.mlexwatch.com}}

|September 28, 1948 – March 31, 1953

|Journalist, The Baltimore Sun{{cite web|last1=Carson|first1=John J.|last2=Hess|first2=Jerry N.|date=8 November 1971|title=Oral History Interview with John J. Carson|url=https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/carson1.htm|publisher=Harry S. Truman Library & Museum|authorlink1=John J. Carson|authorlink2=Jerry N. Hess|accessdate=19 August 2017}}

Stephen J. Spingarn

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|October 25, 1950 – September 25, 1953

|Assistant General Counsel, Department of the Treasury{{cite web|date=4 March 1975|title=Stephen J. Spingarn Papers, 1943-1969|url=http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=317|publisher=Marist University]: FDR Library Digital Collection|accessdate=20 August 2017}}

Caspar Weinberger

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|December 31, 1969 – August 6, 1970

|California State Assemblyman for the 21st district{{cite web|title=Caspar Weinberger (1981–1987)|url=http://millercenter.org/president/essays/weinberger-1981-secretary-of-defense|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923174615/http://millercenter.org/president/essays/weinberger-1981-secretary-of-defense|archive-date=2016-09-23|work=Miller Center, University of Virginia}}

Philip Elman

|{{party shading/Independent}} |Independent

|April 21, 1961 – October 18, 1970

|Assistant to the Solicitor General{{Cite web|date=1999-12-07|title=Philip Elman|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Philip-Elman-2892617.php|access-date=2021-09-16|website=SFGATE|language=en-US}}

Miles Kirkpatrick

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|September 14, 1970 – February 20, 1973

|Head of the Antitrust Section, American Bar Association (ABA){{Cite web|date=2016-01-21|title=Miles Wells Kirkpatrick '40|url=https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/miles-wells-kirkpatrick-%E2%80%9940|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Princeton Alumni Weekly|language=en}}

Everette MacIntyre

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|September 26, 1961 – August 30, 1973

|FTC trial lawyer{{Cite news|last=Canedy|first=Dana|date=1997-06-12|title=A. Everette MacIntyre, 96; Served on F.T.C.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/12/business/a-everette-macintyre-96-served-on-ftc.html|access-date=2021-09-16|issn=0362-4331}}

Mary Gardiner Jones

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican{{Cite news|last=Fox|first=Margalit|date=2010-01-08|title=Mary Gardiner Jones, Consumer Advocate, Dies at 89|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/us/08jones.html|access-date=2021-09-12|issn=0362-4331}}

|October 29, 1964 – November 2, 1973

|Staff attorney, DOJ Antitrust Division"Choice for FTC", The New York Daily News (September 29, 1964), p. 8.

David S. Dennison Jr.

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|October 18, 1970 – December 31, 1973

|Congressman from Ohio's 11th district{{cite web|title=David Short Dennison|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000246|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate=2012-07-28}}

Mayo J. Thompson

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|July 8, 1973 – September 26, 1975

|Antitrust attorney in private practice{{Cite web|last=Turner|first=Allan|date=2007-07-18|title=Mayo Thompson, 88, lawyer, faithful Aggie|url=https://www.chron.com/news/houston-deaths/article/Mayo-Thompson-88-lawyer-faithful-Aggie-1555822.php|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Chron|language=en-US}}

Lewis A. Engman

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|February 20, 1973 – December 31, 1975

|Assistant Director, White House Domestic Council{{Cite news|title=FORMER FTC CHAIRMAN LEWIS A. ENGMAN DIES|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/07/14/former-ftc-chairman-lewis-a-engman-dies/e9701f8b-f028-468a-aee4-a3c4804f6bfa/|access-date=2021-09-16|issn=0190-8286}}

Calvin J. Collier

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|March 24, 1976 – December 31, 1977

|Director of Urban Program Coordination, Department of Housing and Urban Development"HUD Official to Speak to Builders", The Wichita Eagle-Beacon (May 6, 1973), p. 22.

Stephen A. Nye

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|May 5, 1974 – May 5, 1978

|Partner at Sullivan, Jones and Archer LLP{{Cite news|last=Shifrin|first=Carole|date=1979-05-27|title=Stephen Nye, Member Of FTC, Author of Letters By W.F.(Fred) Bunch, Dies|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/05/27/stephen-nye-member-of-ftc-author-of-letters-by-wffred-bunch-dies/b2aeb2a6-17b4-4832-a108-4e456be0a800/|access-date=2021-09-16|issn=0190-8286}}

Elizabeth Hanford Dole

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic (1973-1975)

Republican (1975-1979){{Cite news|last1=Greenhouse|first1=Linda|last2=Times|first2=Special To the New York|date=1988-12-25|title=A Career in the Capital; Woman in the News: Elizabeth Hanford Dole|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/25/us/a-career-in-the-capital-woman-in-the-news-elizabeth-hanford-dole.html|access-date=2021-09-12|issn=0362-4331}}

|December 4, 1973 – March 9, 1979

|Director, White House Office of Consumer Affairs{{Cite web|date=2016-10-04|title=Elizabeth Hanford Dole (1989–1991) {{!}} Miller Center|url=https://millercenter.org/president/essays/dole-1989-secretary-of-labor|access-date=2021-09-16|website=millercenter.org|language=en}}

Paul Rand Dixon

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|March 21, 1961 – September 25, 1981

|FTC trial attorney{{Cite web|last=kadlerabramson|title=Newly Opened Collection: Paul Rand Dixon Personal Papers – ARCHIVALLY SPEAKING: An Inside Look at the JFK Library Archives|date=20 July 2015|url=https://archiveblog.jfklibrary.org/2015/07/newly-opened-collection-paul-rand-dixon-personal-papers/|access-date=2021-09-16|language=en-US}}

David A. Clanton

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|August 26, 1975 – October 14, 1983

|Minority Staff Counsel, Senate Committee on Commerce"[https://books.google.com/books?id=bldouOUChoMC&pg=RA1-PA1188 Announcement of Intention To Nominate David A. Clanton To Be a Commissioner and Intention to Withdraw the Nomination of Thomas Sowell To Be a Commissioner]" (July 20, 1976), in Presidential Documents: Gerald R. Ford, 1976, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Volume 12, Issues 27-39, p. 1188.

Michael Pertschuk

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|April 21, 1977 – October 15, 1984

|Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Commerce{{Cite web|date=2014-09-24|title=1977-1981|url=https://www.ftc.gov/reports/ftc100-bibliography/1977-1981|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Federal Trade Commission|language=en}}

George W. Douglas

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|December 27, 1982 – September 18, 1985

|President, Southwest Econometrics Inc. (private economic research firm){{Cite news|last=Ap|date=1982-12-16|title=Senate Panel Backs Nomination of Douglas to F.T.C.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/16/business/senate-panel-backs-nomination-of-douglas-to-ftc.html|access-date=2021-09-16|issn=0362-4331}}

James C. Miller III

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|September 30, 1981 – October 5, 1985

|Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA){{Cite web|date=2016-10-27|title=James Miller Oral History {{!}} Miller Center|url=https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-histories/james-miller-oral-history|access-date=2021-09-16|website=millercenter.org|language=en}}

Patricia P. Bailey

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|October 29, 1979 – May 15, 1988

|Assistant to the General Counsel, Merit Systems Protection Board{{Cite web|title=Federal Trade Commission Nomination of Patricia P. Bailey To Be a Commissioner. {{!}} The American Presidency Project|url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/federal-trade-commission-nomination-patricia-p-bailey-be-commissioner|access-date=2021-09-16|website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu}}

Daniel Oliver

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|April 21, 1986 – August 10, 1989

|Executive Editor, National Review{{Cite web|title=WHITE HOUSE WRITERS GROUP — Daniel Oliver|url=https://www.whwg.com/daniel-oliver|access-date=2021-09-16|website=WHITE HOUSE WRITERS GROUP|language=en-US}}

Terry Calvani

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|November 18, 1983 – September 25, 1990

|Law professor, Vanderbilt University School of Law{{Cite news|last=Isikoff|first=Michael|date=1983-09-13|title=Terry Calvani|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1983/09/13/terry-calvani/d6ba2237-099b-424e-a7ce-2d0eefceae87/|access-date=2021-09-16|issn=0190-8286}}

Andrew Strenio

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|March 17, 1986 – July 15, 1991

|Member, Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC){{Cite web|title=Strenio Jr., Andrew J. {{!}} Bloomberg Law|url=https://authors.bloomberglaw.com/strenio-jr-andrew-m17179895063/|access-date=2021-09-11|website=authors.bloomberglaw.com}}

Deborah K. Owen

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|October 25, 1989 – August 26, 1994

|Associate White House Counsel{{Cite web|title=Nomination of Deborah Kaye Owen To Be a Federal Trade Commissioner {{!}} The American Presidency Project|url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/nomination-deborah-kaye-owen-be-federal-trade-commissioner|access-date=2021-09-27|website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu}}

Dennis A. Yao

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|July 16, 1991 – August 31, 1994

|Professor, Wharton School of Business{{Cite web|title=Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I) - Nomination of Dennis A. Yao To Be Federal Trade Commissioner|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PPP-1991-book1/html/PPP-1991-book1-doc-pg175.htm|access-date=2021-09-11|website=www.govinfo.gov}}

Christine A. Varney

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|October 17, 1994 – August 5, 1997

|White House Cabinet Secretary{{Cite web|date=2013-07-18|title=Christine A. Varney|url=https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/biographies/christine-varney|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Federal Trade Commission|language=en}}

Janet D. Steiger

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|August 11, 1989 – September 28, 1997

|Chair of the Postal Rate Commission{{Cite web|date=2013-07-18|title=Janet D. Steiger|url=https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/biographies/janet-d-steiger|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Federal Trade Commission|language=en}}

Roscoe B. Starek III

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|November 19, 1990 – December 18, 1997

|Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel{{Cite web|date=2013-07-18|title=Roscoe B. Starek, III|url=https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/biographies/roscoe-b-starek-iii|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Federal Trade Commission|language=en}}

Mary Azcuenaga

|{{party shading/Independent}} |Independent

|November 27, 1984 – June 3, 1998

|FTC Assistant General Counsel{{Cite web|date=2013-07-18|title=Mary L. Azcuenaga|url=https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/biographies/mary-l-azcuenaga|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Federal Trade Commission|language=en}}

Robert Pitofsky

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|June 29, 1978 – April 30, 1981

April 11, 1995 – May 31, 2001

|Director, FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection{{Cite web|date=2013-07-18|title=Robert Pitofsky|url=https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/biographies/robert-pitofsky|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Federal Trade Commission|language=en}}

Sheila F. Anthony

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|September 30, 1997 – August 1, 2003

|Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs{{Cite web|date=2013-07-18|title=Sheila F. Anthony|url=https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/biographies/sheila-f-anthony|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Federal Trade Commission|language=en}}

Timothy Muris

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|June 4, 2001 – August 15, 2004

|Law professor, GMU School of Law{{Cite web|title=Muris, Timothy {{!}} Antonin Scalia Law School|url=https://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/muris_timothy|access-date=2021-09-16|website=www.law.gmu.edu}}

Mozelle W. Thompson

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|December 17, 1997 – August 31, 2004

|Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Policy{{Cite web|date=2013-07-18|title=Mozelle W. Thompson|url=https://www.ftc.gov/es/about-ftc/biographies/mozelle-w-thompson|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Federal Trade Commission|language=es}}

Orson Swindle

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|December 18, 1997 – June 30, 2005

|Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Development{{Cite web|date=2013-07-18|title=Orson Swindle|url=https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/biographies/orson-swindle|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Federal Trade Commission|language=en}}

Thomas B. Leary

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|November 17, 1999 – December 31, 2005

|Assistant General Counsel, General Motors{{Cite web|date=2005-12-22|title=FTC Commissioner Thomas B. Leary to Resign|url=https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2005/12/ftc-commissioner-thomas-b-leary-resign|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Federal Trade Commission|language=en}}

Deborah Platt Majoras

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|August 16, 2004 – March 29, 2008

|Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ Antitrust Division{{Cite web|date=2015-06-25|title=Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Deborah Platt Majoras|url=https://www.justice.gov/archives/atr/staff-profile/former-deputy-assistant-attorney-general-deborah-platt-majoras|access-date=2021-09-16|website=www.justice.gov|language=en}}

Pamela Jones Harbour

|{{party shading/Independent}} |Independent

|August 4, 2003 – April 6, 2010

|Deputy Attorney General of New York{{cite web|date=8 July 2003|title=Senate Hearing 108-976|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-108shrg88517/html/CHRG-108shrg88517.htm|access-date=20 October 2019}}

William Kovacic

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|January 4, 2006 – October 3, 2011

|Law professor, The George Washington University Law School{{Cite web|title=William E. Kovacic|url=https://www.law.gwu.edu/william-e-kovacic|access-date=2021-09-16|website=www.law.gwu.edu|language=en}}

J. Thomas Rosch

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|January 5, 2006 - Sept 2012

|Director, FTC Bureau of Competition{{Cite web|date=2013-07-18|title=Joseph J. Simons|url=https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/biographies/joseph-j-simons|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Federal Trade Commission|language=en}}

Jon Leibowitz

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|March 2, 2009 – March 7, 2013

|Lobbyist, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA){{Cite web|date=2004-09-03|title=Jon Leibowitz Sworn in as FTC Commissioner|url=https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2004/09/jon-leibowitz-sworn-ftc-commissioner|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Federal Trade Commission|language=en}}

Joshua D. Wright

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|January 11, 2013 – August 24, 2015

|Law professor, GMU Antonin Scalia Law School{{Cite web|title=Wright, Joshua {{!}} Antonin Scalia Law School|url=https://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/wright_joshua|access-date=2021-09-16|website=www.law.gmu.edu}}

Julie Brill

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|April 6, 2010 – March 31, 2016

|Assistant Attorney General of Vermont for Consumer Protection and Antitrust{{Cite web|agency=Associated Press|title=Former Vt. assistant AG Julie Brill chosen for Federal Trade Commission|url=https://www.reformer.com/local-news/former-vt-assistant-ag-julie-brill-chosen-for-federal-trade-commission/article_f8c79402-3e65-5471-b87e-c20642078de4.html|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Brattleboro Reformer|language=en}}

Edith Ramirez

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|April 5, 2010 – February 10, 2017

|Vice President, LA Department of Water and Power Board of Commissioners{{Cite web|title=HSF: HSF Stories Detail|url=https://www.hsf.net/web/guest|access-date=2021-09-16|website=www.hsf.net|language=en-US}}

Terrell McSweeny

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|April 28, 2014 – April 27, 2018

|Chief Counsel for Competition Policy and Intergovernmental Relations, DOJ Antitrust Division{{Cite web|date=2014-04-24|title=Terrell McSweeny|url=https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/biographies/terrell-mcsweeny|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Federal Trade Commission|language=en}}

Joseph Simons

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|May 1, 2018 – January 29, 2021

|Director, FTC Bureau of Competition

Rohit Chopra

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|May 2, 2018 – October 12, 2021

|CFPB Assistant Director

Noah J. Phillips

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|May 2, 2018 – October 14, 2022

|Counsel to Senator John Cornyn{{Cite web |date=2018-05-02 |title=Noah Joshua Phillips |url=https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/commissioners-staff/noah-joshua-phillips |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=Federal Trade Commission |language=en}}

Christine S. Wilson

|{{party shading/Republican}} |Republican

|September 26, 2018 – March 31, 2023

|Senior Vice President, Delta Air Lines

Lina Khan

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Democratic

|June 15, 2021 – January 31, 2025

|Legal scholar

List of Federal Trade Commission members (1918–2023){{cite web |url=https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/commissioners-staff/former-commissioners?page=0 |title=Former Commissioners |publisher=Federal Trade Commission}}

Chairs

The following is a list of the chairs of the Federal Trade Commission.{{cite web |url=https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/attachments/Chairs/Chair_chart_november_2018_0.pdf |title=List of Chairs, Chairwomen, and Chairmen of the Federal Trade Commission: 1915-2018 (as of November 2018) |publisher=FTC}}{{dead link|date=March 2025}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/commissioners-staff/former-commissioners |title=Former Commissioners |publisher=FTC}}

= Chairs selected by the members =

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