| Melissa Holyoak | |
| Office: | Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission |
| Term Start: | March 25, 2024 |
| President: | Joe Biden |
| Predecessor: | Christine S. Wilson |
| Office1: | Solicitor General of Utah |
| 1Blankname1: | Attorney General |
| 1Namedata1: | Sean Reyes |
| Termstart1: | September 2020 |
| Termend1: | March 2024 |
| Predecessor1: | Tyler R. Green |
| Successor1: | Stanford E. Purser |
| Spouse: | Joshua Holyoak |
| Children: | 4 |
| Education: | University of Utah (BA, JD) |
| Party: | Republican |
Melissa Holyoak is an American lawyer who is serving as a member of the Federal Trade Commission.[1]
Holyoak earned her B.A. from the University of Utah.[2] She attended the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law, where she was an editor of the Utah Law Review. She graduated in 2003 with a Juris Doctor degree and Order of the Coif membership.
Holyoak served in positions as a public interest attorney with the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Center for Class Action Fairness. She also worked as an associate with O'Melveny & Myers and has been a litigator with much of her twenty-year practice focused on consumer protection. Holyoak served as president and general counsel of Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based public interest firm representing consumers challenging unfair class actions and regulatory overreach. Holyoak was one of the successful petitioners in the 2019 Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos.[3]
In September 2020,[4] Holyoak became the Utah Solicitor General with the Utah Attorney General’s Office, where she manages the civil appeals, criminal appeals, constitutional defense and special litigation, and antitrust and data privacy divisions. In that capacity, she oversees merger reviews, data privacy and antitrust enforcement actions, and provides leadership in consumer protection matters. A Republican, Holyoak was nominated by U.S. president Joe Biden in July 2023 to serve as a member of the Federal Trade Commission.[5] Her nomination was confirmed by the Senate on March 7, 2024.[6]
Holyoak lives in Utah with her husband and four children.