Anne P. Mitchell

Anne P. Mitchell (born April 3, 1958) is an attorney, Professor of Law, and the founder and CEO of the Institute for Social Internet Public Policy.

Mitchell was born in New York City, New York. Mitchell, divorced, lives with her son in Boulder, Colorado. She has a daughter from a previous marriage who lives in California.

Mitchell attended elementary school in Putney, Vermont, and high school in Massachusetts and Idaho. She enlisted in the United States Army following high school, where she was trained as a truck driver, serving in Germany on REFORGER 1977. Following active duty, she served as a medic in the Army Reserves.

Mitchell first came to public awareness in 1988 when she founded an early fathers' rights group in Buffalo, New York, while she was studying pre-law at SUNY Buffalo. Upon moving to California to attend Stanford Law School she founded the first fathers' rights BBS which she ran from her student housing. That BBS later became the popular site DadsRights.org.

After graduating from Stanford, Mitchell opened a fathers' rights law practice, through which she represented fathers wishing to remain involved in the lives of their children following divorce. She spoke publicly and privately on the issues of fathers' rights and the need for children to have their fathers involved in their lives. Mitchell spoke, by invitation, to the California judges' bench Beyond the Bench program, to Santa Clara Family Court Services, and at Governor Pete Wilson's "Focus on Fathers summit.

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