May Mailman

Sylvia May Mailman (née Davis; born June 4, 1988) is an American political advisor and attorney who served as the White House senior policy strategist from January to August 2025. Mailman served as the deputy solicitor general of Ohio from 2021 to 2023. Mailman graduated from the University of Kansas and Harvard Law School. She clerked in the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2016 to 2017. Mailman served several positions in the first Trump administration, including assistant staff secretary, associate staff secretary, and deputy policy coordinator. She began serving as the deputy solicitor general of Ohio by March 2021, but left the role two years later. Mailman was named as director of the Independent Women's Law Center in January 2021. In January 2025, Mailman was named as deputy assistant to the president and senior policy strategist. She left the second Trump administration in August to start her own government affairs firm.