Ex officio member of the United States Sentencing Commission representing the Attorney General.  Mr. Meisler serves as Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice.  Previously, Mr. Meisler was a Trial Attorney in the Appellate Section, which he joined in 2009.  He has also served in several other roles in the Department of Justice:  as an Assistant to the Solicitor General (2015-16); an Assistant Special Counsel in the Office of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III (2017-19); and a member of the Criminal Division’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (2022-23).

Before joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Meisler was an associate at Sidley Austin LLP.  He served as a law clerk to Judge Ronald L. Gilman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Judge John D. Bates on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.  

Mr. Meisler received his B.A. from Duke University, an M.A. in Hispanic Language and Literature from New York University, and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.