Steven Mitchell JD

Steven Mitchell is a native of Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Missouri with an undergraduate degree in 1981, and a law degree in 1984. He maintained a private practice of law with a significant health law component, until 1997 when he joined the Missouri Department of Social Services as a managing attorney in charge of regulating nursing homes and Medicaid reimbursement rates. He later worked as a consumer fraud attorney in the Missouri Attorney General’s office, and as the managing attorney in the Kansas City office of Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services, before joining the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights in Region VII as an Equal Opportunity Specialist in 2003. Mitchell became a Supervisory Equal Opportunity Specialist in 2008, supervising a team of investigators charged with enforcement of non-discrimination laws and HIPAA. In June 2013, Mitchell was named Deputy Regional Manager for Region VII. In June 2015, Mitchell became the Deputy Regional Manager for the newly created Midwest Region for OCR and remains in that position.