United States Deputy Attorney General

Deputy Attorney General of the United States of America

Incumbent
Sally Yates
since January 10, 2015
U.S. Department of Justice
Reports to United States Attorney General
Appointer President of the United States
with advice and consent of the Senate
Formation May 24, 1950
First holder A. Devitt Vanech
Salary Executive Schedule, Level II
Website www.justice.gov/dag

The United States Deputy Attorney General is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice. In the United States federal government, the Deputy Attorney General oversees the day-to-day operation of the Department of Justice, and may act as Attorney General during the absence of the Attorney General. The Deputy Attorney General is appointed by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. The position was created in 1950.[1]

Since January 2015, the Deputy Attorney General has been Sally Yates. On January 8, 2015, President Obama nominated Yates to become the next Deputy Attorney General, with her duties beginning on January 10.[2] She was confirmed by the Senate on May 13, 2015.

2007 Turnover

On May 14, 2007 Paul McNulty, then Deputy Attorney General, announced his resignation in a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.[3] At the time, McNulty was considered "the highest-ranking Bush administration casualty in the furor over the firing of U.S. attorneys." [4] Later, Gonzales himself would resign.

On July 18, 2007 President Bush announced his appointment of Craig S. Morford as acting Deputy Attorney General. Morford had been serving as the U.S. attorney in Nashville, Tennessee, and was known for his successful prosecution of former Ohio Representative James Traficant on bribery charges.[5]

List of United States Deputy Attorneys General

# Name Term Began Term Ended President(s) served under
1 Peyton Ford 1950 1951[6] Harry S. Truman
2 A. Devitt Vanech 1951 1952
3 Ross L. Malone 1952 1953
4 William P. Rogers 1953 1957 Dwight D. Eisenhower
5 Lawrence Walsh 1957 1960
6 Byron White 1961 1962 John F. Kennedy
7 Nicholas Katzenbach 1962 1964
Lyndon B. Johnson
8 Ramsey Clark 1965 1967
9 Warren Christopher 1967 1969
10 Richard Kleindienst 1969 1972 Richard Nixon
11 Ralph E. Erickson 1972 1973
12 Joseph Sneed 1973 1973
13 William Ruckelshaus 1973 1973
14 Laurence Silberman 1974 1975 Gerald Ford
15 Harold R. Tyler, Jr. 1975 1977
16 Peter F. Flaherty 1977 1978 Jimmy Carter
17 Benjamin Civiletti 1978 1979
18 Charles Byron Renfrew 1980 1981
19 Edward C. Schmults 1981 1984 Ronald Reagan
20 Carol E. Dinkins 1984 1985
21 D. Lowell Jensen 1985 1986
22 Arnold Burns 1986 1988
23 Harold G. Christensen 1988 1989
24 Donald B. Ayer 1989 1990 George H. W. Bush
25 William P. Barr 1990 1991
26 George J. Terwilliger III 1992 1993
27 Philip Heymann 1993 1994 Bill Clinton
28 Jamie Gorelick 1994 1997
29 Eric Holder 1997 2001
30 Larry Thompson 2001 2003 George W. Bush
31 James Comey 2003 2005
32 Paul McNulty 2005 2007
- Craig S. Morford (acting) 2007 2008
33 Mark Filip 2008 2009
34 David W. Ogden 2009 2010 Barack Obama
- Gary Grindler (acting) 2010 2010
35 James M. Cole 2010 2015
36 Sally Yates 2015 Incumbent

Notes

  1. ↑ "DOJ: JMD: MPS: Functions Manual: Attorney General". Retrieved 2009-01-25.
  2. ↑ "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate", White House, January 8, 2015
  3. ↑ "Paul McNulty's Resignation Letter" (PDF). Washington Post. May 14, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
  4. ↑ Lara Jakes Jordan, The Associated Press (May 14, 2007). "McNulty, Justice Dept. No. 2, Resigning". The San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on May 31, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
  5. ↑ Lara Jakes Jordan, The Associated Press (July 20, 2007). "Bush Picks Justice No. 2". Fox News. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
  6. ↑ "The President's Day". Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. August 3, 1951. Retrieved February 23, 2016.


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