Mitchell Jacob

Mitchell Jacob, a father of five boys, says he used AI to create printed summer learning packets for his younger children, covering Oklahoma history, tribes and nature.¹ Born in Tulsa, he is one of nine children himself, an avid swimmer and a reader whose favorite series is Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time.²

His jobs included making sandwiches, working movie theater concessions and serving as a busboy, followed by work in mortgages, banking and stockbroking.² He enlisted in the Army in 2017, served about five and a half years as a cryptologic linguist and reached sergeant.² He earned an associate degree in Arabic studies at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.² That service included deployment to Syria in January 2020.²

Jacob graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 2025 and now works as a public defender.² He prioritizes rehabilitation over punishment and opposes prisons run for profit.² His education platform includes funding public schools and providing free school meals.²

Jacob calls for cutting spending, ending increases in the debt limit and eliminating federal debt.² He also supports state and federal authority to regulate AI data centers, emphasizing their demands on water, land and electricity.¹ He faces Republican Tom Cole and independent Rocco Bonacci for Oklahoma's Fourth District seat.³