Katie Nicole Mitchell is a lawyer and jurist serving as a magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Education and Career
Mitchell was born and raised in Victoria, Texas. Mitchell earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and a Master of Arts degree in student affairs administration in higher education from Texas A&M University. Mitchell then received her Juris Doctor from Baylor Law School in 2006, where she graduated sixth in her class and served as senior executive editor of the Baylor Law Review. Judge Mitchell is currently working on her LLM in Judicial Studies at Duke University School of Law.
In 2001, after receiving her master’s degree, Baylor University hired Mitchell as its first coordinator of New Student Programs as part of its “Baylor 2012” vision. After graduating from law school, Mitchell served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Leonard Davis from 2006 to 2007. After clerking for Judge Davis, Mitchell joined the Houston office of the law firm Fulbright & Jaworski, working primarily in the healthcare litigation and health law litigation sections, in addition to patent litigation and patent prosecution as a registered patent attorney before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.[4] After working for three years at Fulbright, Mitchell returned to the chambers of Judge Leonard Davis and served as his chief staff attorney. Judge Mitchell serves as an adjunct faculty member and Jaworski Fellow at Baylor Law School where she regularly teaches in the Baylor Law Academy of the Advocate study abroad program in St. Andrews, Scotland.
Federal Judicial Service
Mitchell was sworn in as a U.S. magistrate judge on August 16, 2013. Judge Mitchell serves as the president of the T. John Ward Inn of Courts and is the President of the Federal Magistrate Judges Association.
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