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Many of the divisions and offices of the

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are headed by an assistant attorney general. The

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appoints individuals to the position of assistant attorney general with the

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of the

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. United States Department of Justice components that are led by an assistant attorney general are: *

Antitrust Division The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice that enforces U.S. antitrust law. It has exclusive jurisdiction over U.S. federal criminal antitrust prosecutions. It also has jurisdict ...

* 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 The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) is an office in the United States Department of Justice that assists the Attorney General's position as legal adviser to the President and all executive branch agencies. It drafts legal opinions of the Attorney ...

(OLC) *

Office of Legal Policy The Office of Legal Policy (OLP) is a division within the United States Department of Justice which describes itself as the "focal point for the development and coordination of Departmental policy." In addition to rendering legal advice to the Un ...

(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

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(in the case of the Antitrust, Civil, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, and Tax Divisions and the Office of Justice Programs).

List of U.S. Assistant Attorneys General

Assistant Attorney General

Antitrust Division

Civil Division

Civil Rights Division

Kristen Clarke Kristen M. Clarke (born 1975) is an American attorney who has served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice since May 2021. Clarke previously served as president of the Lawyers ...

(2021–present) * Eric Dreiband (2018–2021) * John M. Gore (Acting 2017–2018) * Thomas E. Wheeler II (Acting 2017) * Vanita Gupta (2014–2017) * Molly J. Moran (Acting 2014) * Jocelyn Samuels (Acting 2013–2014) *

Thomas Perez Thomas Edward Perez (born October 7, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the Chair of the Democratic National Committee from February 2017 until January 2021. Perez was previously Assistant Attorney General for Civil Right ...

, (2009–2013) *Grace Chung Becker (Acting 2008) *

Wan J. Kim Wan J. Kim (born 1968) is an American attorney and former government official who served as Assistant United States Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice from November 9, 2005, to August 31, 2007. Born in Seo ...

, (2005–2007) * R. Alexander Acosta (2003–2005) *

Bradley Schlozman Bradley Joseph Schlozman (born February 6, 1971) is an American attorney who served as acting head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. A member of the Republican Party, ...

(Acting 2003) *Ralph F. Boyd Jr. (2001–2003) *William R. Yeomans (Acting 2001) *

Bill Lann Lee Bill Lann Lee (born February 5, 1949) is an American civil rights attorney who served as Assistant United States Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division for the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division under President Bil ...

(1997–2001) *

Deval Patrick Deval Laurdine Patrick (born July 31, 1956) is an American politician, civil rights lawyer, author, and businessman who served as the 71st governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. He was first elected in 2006, succeeding Mitt Romney, who ...

, (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 Jerris Leonard (January 17, 1931July 27, 2006) was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He served 8 years in the Wisconsin State Senate (1961–1969) and four years in the State Assembly (1957–1961), representing northern ...

(1969–1971) * Stephen J. Pollak (1968–1969) * John Michael Doar (1965 to 1967) *

Burke Marshall Burke Marshall (October 1, 1922 – June 2, 2003) was an American lawyer and who served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division during the Civil Rights Movement. Early life Marshall was born in Plainfield, ...

(1961–1964) *Harold R. Tyler (1960–1961) * W. Wilson White (1957–1960)

Criminal Division

Kenneth Polite Kenneth Allen Polite Jr. (born 1976) is an American lawyer who is currently serving as the assistant attorney general for the criminal division in the United States Department of Justice since July 21, 2021. He previously served as a United Stat ...

(2021–present) * Brian Benczkowski (2018–2020) * Leslie Caldwell (2014–2017) * Lanny Breuer (2009–2013) * Alice Fisher (2005–2008) *

Christopher A. Wray Christopher Asher Wray (born December 17, 1966) is an American attorney who is the eighth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serving since 2017. From 2003 to 2005, Wray served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Crimin ...

(2003–2005) * Michael Chertoff (2001–2003) * James Robinson (1998–2001) *

Jo Ann Harris Jo Ann Harris (born Jo Ann Marcovitch; May 27, 1949) is an American actress known for her many film and television roles beginning in 1967. In the 1971 film '' The Beguiled'' she portrayed a 17-year-old who seduced Clint Eastwood's character. H ...

(1993–1995) *

Robert Mueller Robert Swan Mueller III (; born August 7, 1944) is an American lawyer and government official who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013. A graduate of Princeton University and New York ...

(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 Benjamin Richard Civiletti (July 17, 1935October 16, 2022) was an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney General during the Carter administration, from 1979 to 1981. The first Italian American to lead the U.S. Department of Jus ...

(1977–1978) * Dick Thornburgh (1975–1977) *

Henry E. Petersen Henry E. Petersen (January 1, 1921 – May 29, 1991) was an attorney and United States federal government official. He served as Assistant U.S. Attorney General during the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations. He also engaged in ethica ...

(1972–1974) * Will Wilson (1969–1971) * Fred Vinson Jr. (1965–1969) * Herbert Miller Jr. (1961–1965) * Malcolm R. Wilkey (1959–1961) *

Malcolm Anderson Malcolm James Anderson (born 3 March 1935) is a former tennis player from Australia who was active from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. He won the singles title at the 1957 U.S. National Championships and achieved his highest amateur rankin ...

(1958–1959) *

Warren Olney III A warren is a network of wild rodent or lagomorph, typically rabbit burrows. Domestic warrens are artificial, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. The term evolved from the medieval Angl ...

(1953–1957) * Charles B. Murray (1952–1953) * James M. McInerney (1950–1952) * Alexander M. Campbell (1948–1949) *

T. Vincent Quinn Thomas Vincent Quinn (March 16, 1903 – March 1, 1982) was an American jurist and politician from New York. He served as an assistant Attorney General and was elected to one term in the United States House of Representatives. He left Congre ...

(1947–1948) * Theron Caudle (1945–1947) * Tom C. Clark (1943–1945) *

Wendell Berge Wendell Berge (1903 – September 25, 1955) was an American business lawyer. He served as head of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice from 1943 to 1947. Early life Berge was born to George W. and Cora Ott Berge in Lincoln, Ne ...

(1940–1943) *

O. John Rogge Oetje John Rogge () (October 12, 1903 – March 22, 1981) was an American attorney who prosecuted cases for the United States government, investigated Nazi activities in the United States, and in private practice was associated with civil righ ...

(1939–1940) * Brien McMahon (1936–1939) *

Joseph B. Keenan Joseph Berry Keenan (11 January 1888, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island – 8 December 1954, in Asheboro, North Carolina

(1934–1936) * Pat Malloy (1933) * E. Nugent Dodds (1931–1933) *

Oscar R. Luhring Oscar Raymond Luhring (February 11, 1879 – August 18, 1944) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as a United States representative from Indiana and an Associate Justice of the District Court of the United States for the District of Colu ...

(1925–1930) *

William J. Donovan William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat, best known for serving as the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Bur ...

(1924–1925) * Earl J. Davis (1924) * John Crim (1921–1923) * Robert P. Stewart (1919–1921)

National Security Division

Environment and Natural Resources Division

* Ramsey Clark (1961–1965) Lands Division * Jeffrey Clark (2018–2021) * Todd Kim (2021–present)

Justice Management Division

* Lee J. Lofthus

Tax Division

Robert H. Jackson Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1941 until his death in 1954. He had previously served as Unit ...

(1936–1938) *

Mabel Walker Willebrandt Mabel Walker Willebrandt (May 23, 1889 – April 6, 1963), popularly known to her contemporaries as the First Lady of Law, was a U.S. Assistant Attorney General from 1921 to 1929, handling cases concerning violations of the Volstead Act, federal ...

(1921–1929)

Office of Justice Programs

* Laurie O. Robinson

Office of Legal Counsel

Office of Legal Policy

Viet D. Dinh Viet D. Dinh ( vi, Đinh Đồng Phụng Việt; born February 22, 1968) is a lawyer and a legal scholar who is Chief Legal and Policy Officer of Fox Corporation and who served as an Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2 ...

(2001–2003) * Daniel J. Bryant (2003–2005) *

Rachel Brand Rachel Lee Brand (born May 1, 1973) is an American lawyer, academic, and former government official. She served as the United States Associate Attorney General from May 22, 2017, until February 20, 2018, when she resigned to take a job as head of ...

(2005–2007) * Elisebeth C. Cook (2008–2009) * Christopher H. Schroeder (2010–2012) * Beth Ann Williams (2017–2020) *

Hampton Dellinger Hampton Yeats Dellinger (born April 30, 1967) is an American attorney and political candidate serving as the United States Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy. He was previously a partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner and Robinson, Brads ...

(2021–present)

Office of Legislative Affairs

Carlos Uriarte Carlos Felipe Uriarte (born December 10, 1979) is an American attorney who is the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs. Early life and education Uriarte was born on December 10, 1979 in San Leandro, California. He earned a Bach ...

(nominee) * Peter Hyun (November 2021 – present; acting) * Helaine Greenfeld (January 2021 – November 2021; acting) * Stephen Boyd (August 2017 – January 2021) * Peter J. Kadzik (June 2014 – January 2017) * Judith C. Appelbaum (June 13, 2012–?) * Ronald H. Weich (April 29, 2009 – April 25, 2012) * Richard Hertling (2003–2007) * Daniel J. Bryant (2001–2003) * Robert Raben (1999–2001) * Jon Jennings ''Acting'' (1998–1999) * L. Anthony Sutin (1998) * John R. Bolton (1985–1989) * Robert A. McConnell (1981–1985) * Patricia Wald (1977–1979) * Michael Uhlmann (1975–1977) * Mitch McConnell (1975, acting) * W. Vincent Rakestraw (March 3, 1974 – February 1, 1975) *

Mike McKevitt James Douglas "Mike" McKevitt (October 26, 1928 – September 28, 2000) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Colorado. Born in Spokane, Washington, McKevitt graduated from Grant High School in Sacramento, Ca ...

(1973)

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