Associate deputy attorney general is a position in the

Office of the Deputy Attorney General The United States deputy attorney general is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice and oversees the day-to-day operation of the Department. The deputy attorney general acts as attorney general In most c ...

United States Department of Justice The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a United States federal executive departments, federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and a ...

. The number of positions varies widely depending on the staffing discretion of the

deputy attorney general The Deputy Attorney General (DAG) is the second-highest-ranking official in a department of justice or of law, in various governments of the world. In those governments, the deputy attorney general oversees the day-to-day operation of the departme ...

, but in 2017, there were five such positions, all of whom served as advisors to the deputy attorney general. There is also a separate principal associate deputy attorney general, who is the principal advisor to the

, and to whom all associate deputy attorneys general report. The associate deputy attorney general positions are filled by

Senior Executive Service The Senior Executive Service (SES) is a position classification in the civil service of the United States federal government equivalent to general officer or flag officer rank in the U.S. Armed Forces. It was created in 1979 when the Civil Servi ...

(SES) career attorneys, by SES political appointees, or by non-SES career attorneys serving on detail assignments from elsewhere in the department. The position is not to be confused with the deputy associate attorneys general, who report to the associate attorney general.

List

Nixon administration

: * Charles D. Ablard

Ford administration

: *

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* Togo D. West Jr.

Reagan administration

: * Randy Levine (Principal) * James H. Burnley IV * Roger Clegg *

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* Wayne L. Kidwell

George H. W. Bush administration

: *

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* Peter Ferrara

Clinton administration

: *

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(Principal) * Robert S. Litt (Principal) * Irvin B. Nathan (Principal) * Edward C. DuMont * Paul J. Fishman * Andrew Fois *

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*Rory K. Little *David Margolis * David W. Ogden *

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* Seth P. Waxman * Monty Wilkinson

George W. Bush administration

: * William W. Mercer (Principal) * Christopher A. Wray (Principal) *

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* Kevin J. O'Connor * Johnny Sutton * Karen Tandy * Patrick B. Murray

Obama administration

: *

Lisa Monaco Lisa Oudens Monaco (born February 25, 1968) is an American attorney, former federal prosecutor and national security official who has served as the 39th deputy attorney general of the United States since April 2021. Monaco previously served as ...

(Principal) * Kathryn Ruemmler (Principal) *Stuart Goldberg (Principal) *Matthew Axelrod (Principal) *David O'Neil * Armando Omar Bonilla *Samir Jain * Neil MacBride * Steven Reich * Carlos Uriarte * Donald B. Verrilli Jr. * Miriam Vogel

Trump administration

: * James A. Crowell (Principal) * Robert K. Hur (Principal) * Ed O'Callaghan (Principal) * Seth D. DuCharme (Principal) *

Richard Donoghue Richard Donoghue is an American attorney and prosecutor who served as the acting United States deputy attorney general from December 2020 to January 2021. Previously, he served as the principal associate deputy attorney general in 2020 and as ...

(Principal) *Antoinette Bacon *

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*Zachary Bolitho *Steve Cook *Erin Creegan *Richard DiZinno *Christopher Grieco *Brendan Groves *Stacie Harris *Jarad Hodes *

Bruce Ohr Bruce Genesoke Ohr is a former United States Department of Justice official. A former associate deputy attorney general and former director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), as of February 2018 Ohr was working in t ...

*Patrick Hovakimian *William Hughes *Amanda Liskamm *Jennifer Mascott *Michael Murray *Sujit Raman * Scott Schools * G. Zachary Terwilliger *Robyn Thiemann *David Wetmore

Biden administration

* John P. Carlin (Principal) * Marshall Miller (Principal) * David Newman * Emily Loeb * Kevin Chambers

References

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