C. Jarrett Dieterle is director of commercial freedom policy and a resident senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based free-market-focused think tank. He joined R Street in January 2017, having previously worked as a regulatory attorney at a Washington law firm. He also clerked for a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Dieterle has worked and written for numerous policy organizations and think tanks in addition to R Street, including the Reason Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, the Mackinac Center and the Federalist Society. He also is the drinks columnist for the Richmond-Times Dispatch and the author of "Give Me Liberty and Give Me a Drink!", published in 2020. He earned his law degree from Georgetown University and his bachelor's degree from the University of Richmond.