John Mitchell received his B.A. degree from Williams College and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Oregon. He is a fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  He was a professor of economics at Boise State University for 13 years, before joining U.S. Bancorp . He was Chief Economist of U.S. Bancorp until July of 1998 and served as Economist Western Region for US Bank until  2007, He wrote US Bank’s economic publications and was a columnist for Oregon Business Magazine. He was Business Analyst for KPTV on Portland. He served as Sterling Bank’s economist from 2007 to 2012.  He has been making economic presentations on the nation and the region for more than 53 years and currently speaks to business groups around the nation.

John was a member of the Western Blue Chip Forecast Panel, the ABA’s Panel of Economists, a Trustee of the Aquila Tax Free Trust of Oregon, and a Board member of Oregon Mutual Insurance. He is a Board member of Northwest Bank.  John served on the Oregon Council of Economic Advisers as well as the Idaho Council of Economic Advisers. He currently serves on the Association of Washington Business’s Council of Economic Advisers.

John and his wife, Carol live in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He enjoys biking, railroading, kayaking and his granddaughters.