Aaron Reitz

Aaron Reitz was confirmed as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy on March 26, 2025. Before coming to the Department, Reitz served as Chief of Staff to Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and as Deputy Attorney General for Legal Strategy to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. As Chief of Staff, Reitz oversaw domestic policy, legislative, communications, administrative, Commerce Committee, Judiciary Committee, and Foreign Relations Committee teams, as well as a dozen regional offices throughout the State of Texas. As a Deputy Attorney General, Reitz was Texas’s “offensive coordinator”—planning, staffing, and executing the Attorney General’s most consequential affirmative lawsuits and legal initiatives on matters including immigration, federal-state-local relations, election integrity, voting rights, Big Tech, consumer protection, and the U.S. Constitution. Before becoming a lawyer, Reitz served for several years on Active Duty in the Marine Corps, deploying to the Helmand Province of Afghanistan, and remains a current member of the Marine Corps Reserve. He graduated from Texas A&M University and the University of Texas School of Law, and clerked on the Texas Supreme Court. Reitz and his wife Meredith have four children.