Jared Kelson is counsel at Boyden Gray PLLC. He worked previously as an attorney-adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he received the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service and developed significant expertise in administrative law, regulatory process, executive authority, and the constitutional separation of powers.

Mr. Kelson was a law clerk to Judge Thomas B. Griffith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and to Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.  He graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he received the Faculty Award for Academic Excellence after achieving the highest overall academic record in his graduating class.  He also served as an Articles Editor of the Virginia Law Review.  Previously, he graduated summa cum laude from Brigham Young University with a B.S. in Biology.

Education
B.S., Brigham Young University, 2012
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2016

Admissions
District of Columbia
U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits
District of North Dakota
Northern District of Texas

Memberships
Federalist Society