About STOPGrants.org

Darren Mitchell is a Fellow with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges- Family Violence and Domestic Relations and a consultant on domestic violence and other violence against women issues, with a focus on child custody and domestic violence, firearms and domestic violence, interstate child custody, protection order issuance and enforcement, and full faith and credit. Since 2000, he has trained judges, attorneys, advocates, and other professionals across the country and has published several articles on these topics.  His consulting clients include the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence, the Alliance of Social Service Organizations, the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence (for which he served as Interim Executive Director), the Center for Justice Innovation,
the Legal Resource Center on Violence Against Women, the Battered Women’s Justice Project, and other national and state organizations.  From 2005-2016, Mr. Mitchell was Co-Executive Director of the Legal Resource Center, a national nonprofit that provides training and technical assistance to attorneys and others who assist survivors of domestic violence in complex interstate
custody cases. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Mitchell managed the National Center on Full Faith and Credit (NCFFC), a Washington, D.C.-based national training and technical assistance project of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Prior to that, he was a staff attorney with the NCFFC, a consumer advocate, a litigator in private practice, and a clerk to a federal
district court judge.

Mr. Mitchell is a graduate of Stanford Law School, Harvard University, and UCLA.