United States 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. 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).

List of US Assistant Attorneys General

This is a listing of United States 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
William Arden Maury	1889–1893	Benjamin Harrison
Roger Wilkins	1966–1969	Lyndon Johnson
Wesley Pomeroy	1968–1969	Richard Nixon
William L. Frierson	1917–1921	Woodrow Wilson
Ernest Knaebel	1911–1916	Woodrow Wilson
William H. Lewis	1910	William Taft
Edward Terry Sanford	1907–1908	Theodore Roosevelt
James Alexander Fowler	1908-1911	Theodore Roosevelt
James Clark McReynolds	1903–1907	Theodore Roosevelt
Holmes Conrad	1893–1895	Grover Cleveland
Edward Baldwin Whitney	1895-1897	Grover Cleveland
John C. Chaney	1889–1893	Benjamin Harrison

Antitrust Division

Name	Years of Service	Appointed By
William Joseph Donovan	1926–1927	Calvin Coolidge
Robert H. Jackson	1937–1938	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thurman Arnold	1938–1943	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wendell Berge	1943–1947	Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Sonnet	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 Ridley	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
William Baer	2012–present	Barack Obama

Civil Division

• Peter D. Keisler, (2003-Current)
• Robert McCallum, Jr., (2001–2003)
• Rex E. Lee (1975–1976)
• L. Patrick Gray (1970–1972)
• Carla Anderson Hills (1959–1961)
• Warren E. Burger (1953–1956)

Civil Rights Division

• Thomas Perez, (2009-Current)
• Wan J. Kim, (2005–2007)
• Bradley Schlozman
• Bill Lann Lee
• Deval Patrick, (1994–1997)
• John R. Dunne
• Drew S. Days, III (1977–1980)
• Burke Marshall (1961–1964)
• John Michael Doar(1960 to 1967)

He served as First Assistant and then Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the U.S. Dept. of Justice, from 1960 to 1967

Criminal Division

• Robert Mueller (1990–1991)
• William Weld (1986–1988)
• Dick Thornburgh (1975–1977)
• Brien McMahon (1935–1939)

National Security Division

• Robert Mardian, (1970–1974) Internal Security Division
• Thomas J. Spellacy, (1919–1921) Enemy Custodianship Department

Environment and Natural Resources Division

• Ramsey Clark (1961–1965) Lands Division

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

Office of Legal Counsel

• William Barr (1989–1990)
• Walter E. Dellinger III (1993–1996)
• Theodore Olson (1981–1984)
• John M. Harmon (1977–1981)
• Antonin Scalia (1974–1977)
• William Rehnquist (1969–1971)
• Nicholas Katzenbach, (1961–1962)
• J. Lee Rankin (1953–1956)

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–present)

Office of Legislative Affairs

• Judith C. Appelbaum (June 13, 2012–present)
• 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)
• A. Mitchell McConnell (1975, acting)
• W. Vincent Rakestraw (March 3, 1974–February 1, 1975)
• Mike McKevitt (1973)