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Cleta Mitchell (Cleta Deatherage) was born on 15 September, 1950 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., is an American lawyer, politician and conservative activist (born 1950). Discover Cleta Mitchell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

Popular As Cleta Deatherage
Occupation Attorney, Politician
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 15 September 1950
Birthday 15 September
Birthplace Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
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Who Is Cleta Mitchell's Husband?

Her husband is Duane Draper (1973–1982) Dale Mitchell (1984–present)

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Cleta Mitchell Net Worth

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1950

Cleta B. Deatherage Mitchell (born September 16, 1950) is an American lawyer, politician, and conservative activist.

Cleta Mitchell was born as Cleta B. Deatherage on September 16, 1950, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

She attended Classen High School her junior and senior year.

1971

In 1971, Mitchell was one of the five original conveners of the Oklahoma Women's Political Caucus.

1973

She received a B.A. in 1973 and a J.D. in 1975, both from the University of Oklahoma.

As a student she was a proponent of the women's rights movement and campaigned for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and for legal recognition–then denied in Oklahoma–of a homemaker's contribution to the value of a married couple's estate.

She considered US Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine her role model.

1976

Elected in 1976, Mitchell served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives until 1984, representing District 44 as a member of the Democratic Party.

Mitchell served as a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1976 to 1984, as member of the Democratic Party.

In her second term, Mitchell chaired the Oklahoma House Appropriations and Budget Committee.

She served on the executive committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

1981

She was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics in 1981.

1986

Mitchell returned to politics and ran unsuccessfully for Oklahoma lieutenant governor in 1986.

1991

In 1991 she moved to Washington, D.C., to become a pro-term limits activist; that year, she was named executive director of the Term Limits Legal Institute.

She was co-counsel for the petitioners in the U.S. Supreme Court case U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, in which the Court held that the federal Constitution precluded state governments from imposing term limits for federal office.

Until January 2021, Mitchell was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Foley & Lardner, resigning due to legal concerns about her involvement in the call Trump made to attempt reversal of the Georgia certified votes in the 2020 election.

She has served as legal counsel for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the National Rifle Association.

She has represented Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR), Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), and Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK).

She has also represented Tea Party Republican candidates Sharron Angle of Nevada and Alaska's Joe Miller.

She is on the boards of numerous conservative organizations, including the Bradley Foundation, the National Rifle Association (NRA) (where she has also been a lawyer), the American Conservative Union Foundation, and the Republican National Lawyers Association, of which she is a former president.

As a board member of the American Conservative Union (ACU), Mitchell played a major role in efforts to expel GOProud (a pro-gay rights Republican group) from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a major annual right-wing convention organized by the ACU.

Mitchell has been a leading critic of the IRS, accusing the agency of targeting Tea Party groups.

1996

In 1996, she registered as a Republican.

Since then, she has worked as a Republican lawyer and conservative activist.

In 1996, Mitchell switched her political affiliation from Democratic to independent, and then to Republican.

2011

Mitchell represented Donald Trump in 2011, defending him against accusations that he had violated federal election laws in an exploratory campaign for president.

Mitchell was the trustee of EPA administrator Scott Pruitt's legal defense fund.

As trustee of that fund, she sought donations to the fund by individuals who had interests before the EPA.

2014

She testified before Congress in 2014, asserting that "the commissioner of the IRS lied to Congress".

She called for the IRS to be abolished.

Investigations by Congress and federal agencies later concluded that there was no evidence that the IRS targeted conservative groups.

2016

Mitchell's name was included in a list of people that Democrats on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee sought to interview in connection with the committee's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Mitchell was a staunch opponent of public health measures implemented at the state and local levels to halt the spread of COVID-19.

2018

In 2018, McClatchyDC reported that Mitchell, as a longtime lawyer for the NRA, had previously expressed concerns about the NRA's close ties to Russia and the possibility that Russia had been funneling cash through the NRA into Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

Mitchell denied ever having expressed such concerns.

2019

In 2019, she represented Stephen Bannon's nonprofit, Citizens of the American Republic.

2020

After Democratic candidate Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, Mitchell aided Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the election results and pressure election officials to "find" sufficient votes for him to win.

After participating in a telephone call in which Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to alter the election results in Georgia (which was won by Biden), Mitchell resigned as a partner at Foley & Lardner.

In 2021, she set up an escrow fund to funnel money to companies conducting a pro-Trump "audit" into Arizona's 2020 election.

In late September 2020, she attended a White House event celebrating Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.