Mark Paoletta is an American conservative attorney born in 1960 in Buffalo, New York. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from SUNY Buffalo in 1982 and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1987. His government service began in the Reagan administration as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice (1987-1989). He continued under President George H.W. Bush as associate counsel in the Office of Counsel to the President (1989-1990). After private sector work including as a partner at Schaerr Jaffe LLP, he returned to government in the Trump administration, serving as chief counsel and assistant to Vice President Mike Pence (January 20, 2017-January 5, 2018) and then as general counsel to the Office of Management and Budget (January 8, 2018-January 20, 2021). He succeeded Mark Levin as president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, a conservative public interest law organization, where he currently leads litigation and advocacy on regulatory reform and constitutional rights. Throughout his career, he has been a prominent figure in conservative legal circles, advising on executive actions and defending administration positions.