Tristan Leavitt

Charleston, WV

Tristan Leavitt is president of Empower Oversight, a nonprofit which has helped whistleblowers bring to light some of the biggest abuses of the Biden Administration, from the preferential treatment of Hunter Biden to the FBI’s targeting of conservatives in its ranks. He started his legal career working from 2011-2015 on Senator Chuck Grassley’s Judiciary Committee staff, where he helped investigate ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious. From 2015-2016 he worked on Chairman Jason Chaffetz’s Oversight and Government Reform Committee staff, where he led the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. He led two agencies during the Trump Administration: the U.S. Office of Special Counsel from 2017-2018, where he served as Principal Deputy Special Counsel and for a time as acting Special Counsel; and the Merit Systems Protection Board, where he was acting agency head from 2018-2022 and a Board Member from 2022-2023. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University and Georgetown Law. He and his wife Brittany are raising their five children in Charleston, West Virginia, where he was also elected in 2024 to the West Virginia House of Delegates.