Before joining Cleveland State, Professor Mead served as a Trial Attorney for the United States Department of Justice in Washington DC. As a Trial Attorney, he advised federal agencies and represented the United States in constitutional and other complex litigation across the country. Prior to joining the Department of Justice, he served as a law clerk to Judge Cornelia Kennedy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and Judge David Lawson on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. He received his law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan law school, where he served on the Michigan Law Review and was elected to the order of the coif.