Gail Slater

Gail Slater (née Conlon; born 1971 or 1972)^[1] is an Irish-born American lawyer and political advisor who is the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.

Gail Slater
Official portrait, 2025
United States Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division
Incumbent
Assumed office March 12, 2025
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Jonathan Kanter
Personal details
Born	1971 or 1972 (age 52–53) Dublin, Ireland
Education	University College Dublin (BCL, LLM)

Early life

Slater is from Dalkey, Dublin, in Ireland.^[1] She studied law at University College Dublin, receiving a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1993 and a Master of Laws in 1997. She previously attended the University of Oxford.^[2][3] She moved to the U.S. in 2003 and holds dual citizenship.^[4]

Career

Slater started her career with the British law firm Freshfields (now Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer).^[2] She focused on antitrust cases and was often sent to the U.S. as a liaison.^[2] She met her future husband, Lindsay Slater, on one of her trips to the U.S. and later moved there, leaving her job at Freshfields to become a staff attorney for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2004.^[2][5] At the FTC, she worked on several cases to block major mergers, including one in which Whole Foods Market was attempting to acquire Wild Oats Markets, as well as a case involving the pharmaceutical company Cephalon.^[2] In 2011, she became the FTC attorney advisor to commissioner Julie Brill.^[1][5]

Slater left the FTC in 2014, to become the vice-president for legal and regulatory policy for the Internet Association, a lobbying group, later becoming general counsel.^[2] After four years there, she was appointed in February 2018 to the administration of President Donald Trump as special assistant to the president for technology, telecommunications and cybersecurity.^[6] After a year in the Trump administration, Slater left to become the senior vice president for policy and strategy at Fox Corporation.^[7] She later became a vice president and deputy general counsel for Roku, Inc.^[8]

In 2024, Slater became a policy advisor for vice presidential candidate and later Vice President-elect JD Vance.^[9] When Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Slater became an advisor for his transition team on antitrust policy.^[10] On December 4, 2024, Trump nominated her to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.^[9] On March 11, 2025, she was confirmed by the Senate, 78-19.^[11]