United States Assistant Attorney General






The flag of a U.S. Assistant Attorney General.


Many of the divisions and offices of the United States Department of Justice are headed by an Assistant Attorney General.


The President of the United States appoints individuals to the position of Assistant Attorney General with the advice and consent of the Senate.[1] United States Department of Justice components that are led by an Assistant Attorney General are:



  • Antitrust Division

  • Civil Division

  • Civil Rights Division

  • Criminal Division

  • National Security Division


  • Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD)


  • Justice Management Division (JMD)

  • Tax Division


  • Office of Justice Programs (OJP)


  • Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)


  • Office of Legal Policy (OLP)


  • Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA)


Assistant Attorneys General report either to the Deputy Attorney General (in the case of the Criminal Division, the Justice Management Division and the Offices of Legal Counsel, Legislative Affairs, and Legal Policy) or to the Associate Attorney General (in the case of the Antitrust, Civil, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, and Tax Divisions and the Office of Justice Programs).




Contents






  • 1 List of U.S. Assistant Attorneys General


    • 1.1 Assistant Attorney General


    • 1.2 Antitrust Division


    • 1.3 Civil Division


    • 1.4 Civil Rights Division


    • 1.5 Criminal Division


    • 1.6 National Security Division


    • 1.7 Environment and Natural Resources Division


    • 1.8 Justice Management Division


    • 1.9 Tax Division


    • 1.10 Office of Justice Programs


    • 1.11 Office of Legal Counsel


    • 1.12 Office of Legal Policy


    • 1.13 Office of Legislative Affairs




  • 2 References





List of U.S. Assistant Attorneys General



Assistant Attorney General
























































































Name Years of Service Appointed By President
Titian J. Coffey 1880–1884 Chester A. Arthur
Zachariah Montgomery 1885–1889 Grover Cleveland
John C. Chaney 1889–1893 Benjamin Harrison
William Arden Maury 1889–1893 Benjamin Harrison
Holmes Conrad 1893–1895 Grover Cleveland
Edward Baldwin Whitney 1895–1897 Grover Cleveland
James M. Beck 1900–1903 William McKinley
James Clark McReynolds 1903–1907 Theodore Roosevelt
Edward Terry Sanford 1907–1908 Theodore Roosevelt
James Alexander Fowler 1908–1911 Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Lewis 1910 William Taft
Ernest Knaebel 1911–1916 Woodrow Wilson
William L. Frierson 1917–1921 Woodrow Wilson
Mabel Walker Willebrandt 1921–1929 Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge
Roger Wilkins 1966–1969 Lyndon Johnson
Wesley Pomeroy 1968–1969 Richard Nixon


Antitrust Division































































































































































































































Name Years of Service Appointed By
William Joseph Donovan 1926–1927 Calvin Coolidge
John Lord O'Brian 1929–1933 Herbert Hoover
Robert H. Jackson 1937–1938 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thurman Arnold 1938–1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wendell Berge 1943–1947 Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Sonnett 1947–1948 Harry S. Truman
Herbert Bergson 1948–1950 Harry S. Truman
Leonard Bessman 1950–1951 Harry S. Truman
H. Graham Morison 1951–1952 Harry S. Truman
Newell A. Clapp 1952–1953 acting
Stanley Barnes 1953–1956 Eisenhower
Victor R. Hansen 1956–1959 Eisenhower
Robert A. Bicks 1959–1961 Eisenhower
Lee Loevinger 1961–1963 Kennedy
William Horsley Orrick, Jr. 1963–1965 Kennedy
Donald F. Turner 1965–1968 Lyndon Johnson
Edwin Zimmerman 1968–1969 Lyndon Johnson
Richard W. McLaren 1969–1972 Richard Nixon
Walker B. Comegys 1972 acting
Thomas E. Kauper 1972–1976 Richard Nixon
Donald I. Baker 1976–1977 Gerald R. Ford
John H. Shenefield 1977–1979 Jimmy Carter
Sanford Litvack 1979–1981 Jimmy Carter
William Baxter 1981–1983 Ronald Reagan
J. Paul McGrath 1983–1985 Ronald Reagan
Douglas H. Ginsburg 1985–1986 Ronald Reagan
Charles Rule 1986–1989 Ronald Reagan
James F. Rill 1989–1992 George H.W. Bush
Charles James 1992 acting
J. Mark Gidley 1992–1993 acting
Anne Bingaman 1993–1996 Bill Clinton
Joel Klein 1996–2000 Bill Clinton
Douglas Melamed 2000–2001 acting
Charles James 2001–2003 George W. Bush
R. Hewitt Pate 2003–2005 George W. Bush
Thomas O. Barnett 2005–2008 George W. Bush
Deborah A. Garza 2008–2009 acting
Christine A. Varney 2009–2011 Barack Obama
Sharis Pozen 2011–2012 acting
Joseph F. Wayland 2012 acting
Renata Hesse 2012–2013 acting
William Baer 2013–2017 Barack Obama
Makan Delrahim 2017–present Donald J. Trump


Civil Division

























































































































































































































































#
Name
Term Began
Term Ended

President(s) served under
1
Charles B. Rugg
1930
1933

Herbert Hoover
2

George C. Sweeney
1933
1935

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
3
Angus D. MacLean
1935

4
James W. Morris
1935
1937
5
Sam E. Whitaker
1937
1939
6

Francis Michael Shea
1939
1945
7
John F. Sonnett
1945
1947

Harry S. Truman
8
Peyton Ford
1947
1949
9
H. Graham Morison
1949
1951
10
Holmes Baldridge
1951
1953
11

Warren E. Burger
1953
1956

Dwight D. Eisenhower
12
George Cochran Doub
1953
1960
13

William Horsley Orrick, Jr.
1961
1963

John F. Kennedy
14

John W. Douglas
1963
1966

John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
15

Harold Barefoot Sanders, Jr.
1966
1967

Lyndon B. Johnson
16
Edwin L. Weisl, Jr.
1967
1969
17

William Ruckelshaus
1969
1970

Richard M. Nixon
18

L. Patrick Gray
1970
1972
19

Harlington Wood, Jr.
1972
1973
20

Carla Anderson Hills
1973
1975
21

Rex E. Lee
1975
1977

Gerald R. Ford
22

Barbara A. Babcock
1977
1979

Jimmy Carter
23
Alice Daniels
1979
1981
24
Paul J. McGrath
1981
1985

Ronald Reagan
25
Richard K. Willard
1985
1988
26

John R. Bolton
1988
1989
27

Stuart M. Gerson
1989
1993

George H.W. Bush
28
Frank W. Hunger
1993
1999

Bill Clinton
29

David W. Ogden
1999
2001
30

Robert McCallum Jr.
2001
2003

George W. Bush
31

Peter Keisler
2003
2007
32

Gregory G. Katsas
2008
2009
34

Tony West
2009
2012

Barack Obama
35
Stuart F. Delery
2012
2014
36
Benjamin C. Mizer (acting)
2014
2017
37

Chad A. Readler (acting)
2017
2018

Donald Trump
38

Jody Hunt
2018
present
Source:[2]


Civil Rights Division





  • Eric Dreiband (2018–present)


  • John M. Gore (Acting 2017–2018)


  • Thomas E. Wheeler II (Acting 2017)


  • Vanita Gupta (Acting 2014–2017)[3]

  • Molly J. Moran (Acting 2014)

  • Jocelyn Samuels (Acting 2013–2014)


  • Thomas Perez, (2009–2013)

  • Grace Chung Becker (Acting 2008)


  • Wan J. Kim, (2005–2007)


  • R. Alexander Acosta (2003–2005)


  • Bradley Schlozman (Acting 2003)

  • Ralph F. Boyd Jr. (2001–2003)

  • William R. Yeomans (Acting 2001)


  • Bill Lann Lee (1997–2001)


  • Deval Patrick, (1994–1997)

  • James P. Turner (Acting 1993–94)


  • John R. Dunne(1990–1993)

  • James P. Turner (Acting 1989–1990)

  • William C. Lucas (Acting 1988–1989)

  • William Bradford Reynolds (1981–1988)


  • Drew S. Days, III (1977–1980)


  • J. Stanley Pottinger (1973–1977)

  • David Luke Norman (1971–1973)


  • Jerris Leonard (1969–1971)


  • Stephen J. Pollak (1968–1969)


  • John Michael Doar (1965 to 1967)


  • Burke Marshall (1961–1964)

  • Harold R. Tyler (1960–1961)[4]


  • W. Wilson White (1957–1960)[5]



Criminal Division





  • Brian Benczkowski (2018–present)


  • Leslie Caldwell (2014–2017)


  • Lanny Breuer (2009–2013)


  • Alice Fisher (2005–2008)


  • Christopher A. Wray (2003–2005)


  • Michael Chertoff (2001–2003)


  • James Robinson (1998–2001)


  • Jo Ann Harris (1993–1995)


  • Robert Mueller (1990–1993)


  • Edward S.G. Dennis (1988–1990)


  • William Weld (1986–1988)


  • Stephen S. Trott (1983–1986)


  • D. Lowell Jensen (1981–1983)


  • Philip Heymann (1978–1981)


  • Benjamin Civiletti (1977–1978)


  • Dick Thornburgh (1975–1977)


  • Henry E. Petersen (1972–1974)


  • Will Wilson (1969–1971)


  • Fred Vinson Jr. (1965–1969)


  • Herbert Miller Jr. (1961–1965)


  • Malcolm R. Wilkey (1959–1961)


  • Malcolm Anderson (1958–1959)


  • Warren Olney III (1953–1957)


  • Charles B. Murray (1952–1953)


  • James M. McInerney (1950–1952)


  • Alexander M. Campbell (1948–1949)


  • T. Vincent Quinn (1947–1948)


  • Theron Caudle (1945–1947)


  • Tom C. Clark (1943–1945)


  • Wendell Berge (1940–1943)


  • O. John Rogge (1939–1940)


  • Brien McMahon (1936–1939)


  • Joseph B. Keenan (1934–1936)


  • Pat Malloy (1933)


  • E. Nugent Dodds (1931–1933)


  • Oscar R. Luhring (1925–1930)


  • William J. Donovan (1924–1925)


  • Earl J. Davis (1924)


  • John Crim (1921–1923)


  • Robert P. Stewart (1919–1921)



National Security Division

























































Name
President
nominating
Announcement
Nomination sent
to the Senate
Confirmation
by the Senate
Sworn in
Left office

Kenneth Leonard Wainstein[6]

George W. Bush
March 13, 2006
March 13, 2006
September 21, 2006[7]
September 28, 2006[8]
March 30, 2008, to become Homeland Security Advisor (Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism)[9]
J. Patrick Rowan

George W. Bush
June 19, 2008[10]
June 19, 2008[11]
September 26, 2008[12][13][14]
October 3, 2008[13]
January 20, 2009[15]

David S. Kris

Barack Obama
January 22, 2009[16]
February 11, 2009[15]
March 25, 2009[17]



Lisa Monaco

Barack Obama
March 17, 2011[18]
March 17, 2011[18]
June 28, 2011[19]
July 1, 2011[20]
March 8, 2013

John Demers

Donald Trump
September 2, 2017
September 5, 2017
February 15, 2018
February 22, 2018



Environment and Natural Resources Division




  • Ramsey Clark (1961–1965) Lands Division


  • Jeffrey Bossert Clark (2018–present)



Justice Management Division


  • Lee J. Lofthus


Tax Division




  • Robert H. Jackson (1936–1938)


  • Mabel Walker Willebrandt (1921–1929)



Office of Justice Programs



  • Laurie O. Robinson[21]


Office of Legal Counsel





































































































































































































































































Name Years served Appointed by Notes
Angus D. MacLean 1933–1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt [22]

Golden W. Bell 1935–1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charles Fahy 1940–1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Oscar S. Cox 1942–1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hugh B. Cox 1943–1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harold W. Judson 1945–1946 Franklin D. Roosevelt
George T. Washington 1946–1949 Harry Truman
Abraham J. Harris 1950–1951 Harry Truman
Joseph C. Duggan 1951–1952 Harry Truman
J. Lee Rankin 1953–1956 Dwight Eisenhower Became Solicitor General in 1956.
W. Wilson White 1957 Dwight Eisenhower After a short tenure, selected to be first head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
Malcolm R. Wilkey 1958–1959 Dwight Eisenhower
Robert Kramer 1959–1961 Dwight Eisenhower
Nicholas Katzenbach 1961–1962 John F. Kennedy
Norbert A. Schlei 1962–1966 John F. Kennedy
Frank H. Wozencraft 1966–1969 Lyndon Johnson
William H. Rehnquist 1969–1971 Richard Nixon Later nominated and confirmed as Associate, and subsequent Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ralph E. Erickson 1971–1972 Richard Nixon
Roger C. Cramton 1972–1973 Richard Nixon
Antonin Scalia 1974–1977 Gerald Ford Later nominated and confirmed as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
John M. Harmon 1977–1981 Jimmy Carter [23]

Theodore B. Olson 1981–1984 Ronald Reagan Later became U.S. Solicitor General.
Charles J. Cooper 1985–1988 Ronald Reagan
Douglas Kmiec 1988–1989 Ronald Reagan Later U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Malta during the "Arab Spring" uprisings.
William P. Barr 1989–1990 George H. W. Bush
Michael Luttig 1990–1991 George H. W. Bush
Timothy Flanigan 1991–1992 George H. W. Bush
Walter Dellinger 1993–1994 Bill Clinton Later became acting U.S. Solicitor General.
Beth Nolan 1995 acting [24]
Served as acting Assistant AG, OLC, while Deputy Assistant Attorney General. Nominated to become Assistant AG, OLC, but Senate did not vote on the nomination. Became White House Counsel in 1996.
Dawn Johnsen 1996–1998 acting
Randolph D. Moss 1998–2001 Bill Clinton Served as acting AAG from 1998 to 2000; nominated November 9, 1999; Recess-appointed August 3, 2000; confirmed by United States Senate December 15, 2000
Jay S. Bybee 2001 – March 2003 George W. Bush In charge when the OLC issued the Bybee memo and other Torture memos; appointed as a federal judge; started March 21, 2003
Jack Goldsmith October 2003 – June 2004 George W. Bush Later Professor at Harvard Law School and author of The Terror Presidency (2007)
Daniel Levin 2004–2005 acting
Steven G. Bradbury 2005–2009 acting Served as acting AAG 2005–2007 (nominated June 23, 2005; nomination approved by Senate Judiciary Committee but never voted on by full Senate), continued to function as senior appointed official in charge of OLC until January 20, 2009.
David J. Barron 2009–2010 acting Professor at Harvard Law School and served as Acting AAG from January 2009 to July 2010.
Jonathan G. Cedarbaum 2010–2011 acting Served as acting AAG, July–November 2010; continued to function as senior appointed official in charge of OLC until the end of January 2011.
Caroline D. Krass 2011 acting Senior appointed official leading OLC since the end of January 2011 until June 2011, when Virginia A. Seitz was confirmed.
Virginia A. Seitz 2011–2013 Barack Obama Confirmed by the Senate in a voice vote on June 28, 2011. Resigned effective December 20, 2013.[25]
Karl R. Thompson 2014–2017 acting Appointed Principal Deputy AAG on March 24, 2014.[26]
Curtis E. Gannon 2017 acting Appointed Principal Deputy AAG on January 20, 2017.[27]
Steven Engel 2017–present Donald Trump


Office of Legal Policy




  • Viet D. Dinh (2001–2003)


  • Daniel J. Bryant (2003–2005)


  • Rachel Brand (2005–2007)


  • Elisebeth C. Cook (2008–2009)


  • Christopher H. Schroeder (2010–2012)


  • Beth Ann Williams (2017–present)



Office of Legislative Affairs




  • Stephen Boyd (August 2017–present)


  • Peter J. Kadzik (June 2014 – January 2017)

  • Judith C. Appelbaum (June 13, 2012–?)

  • Ronald H. Weich (April 29, 2009 – April 25, 2012)

  • Richard Hertling


  • Jon Jennings (1999–2000)


  • John R. Bolton (1985–1989)

  • Robert A. McConnell (1981–1985)


  • Patricia Wald (1977–1979)


  • Michael Uhlmann (1975–1977)[28]


  • Mitch McConnell (1975, acting)

  • W. Vincent Rakestraw (March 3, 1974 – February 1, 1975)[28]


  • Mike McKevitt (1973)



References





  1. ^ 28 U.S.C. § 506


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  7. ^ [1]


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