There are now three commissioners on staff at the Federal Trade Commission.

Last week, the Senate confirmed Mark Meador as an FTC commissioner to serve a term that will expire on Sept. 25, 2031.

That brings the active commissioner number to three with Meador being a part of the group that includes chair Andrew Ferguson and commissioner Melissa Holyoak.

“I am thrilled to welcome Mark to the commission,” Ferguson said in a news release. “Mark is a brilliant antitrust lawyer who will be a great asset to the Trump-Vance FTC.”

Meador was nominated on Jan. 20 by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate on April 10.

Meador most recently worked in private practice and as a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation Tech Policy Center. Prior to that post, he served as deputy chief counsel for antitrust and competition policy for Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican.

During the first Trump administration, Meador worked as a trial attorney in the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. He began his career as an attorney in the FTC’s Bureau of Competition.

The FTC still doesn’t have its full contingent of five commissioners as Trump fired Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on March 18.

Bedoya made these accusations on social media immediately after his dismissal.

“The president just illegally fired me,” Bedoya said in this post on X. “The FTC is an independent agency founded 111 years ago to fight fraudsters and monopolists. Our staff is unfraid of the Martin Shkrelis and Jeff Bezos of the world. They take them to court and win.

“Now, the president wants the FTC to be a lapdog for his golfing buddies,” Bedoya added.