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
  • Environment and Natural Resources Division
  • Justice Management Division
  • National Security Division
  • Office of Justice Programs
  • Office of Legislative Affairs
  • Office of Legal Counsel
  • Office of Legal Policy
  • Tax Division
Assistant attorneys general report either to the deputy attorney general or to the associate attorney general.

List of U.S. assistant attorneys general

Assistant Attorney General

Antitrust Division

Civil Division

Civil Rights Division

  • Harmeet Dhillon
  • Mac Warner
  • Kristen Clarke
  • Eric Dreiband
  • John M. Gore
  • Thomas E. Wheeler II
  • Vanita Gupta
  • Molly J. Moran
  • Jocelyn Samuels
  • Thomas Perez,
  • Grace Chung Becker
  • Wan J. Kim,
  • R. Alexander Acosta
  • Bradley Schlozman
  • Ralph F. Boyd Jr.
  • William R. Yeomans
  • Bill Lann Lee
  • Deval Patrick,
  • James P. Turner
  • John R. Dunne
  • James P. Turner
  • William C. Lucas
  • William Bradford Reynolds
  • Drew S. Days, III
  • J. Stanley Pottinger
  • David Luke Norman
  • Jerris Leonard
  • Stephen J. Pollak
  • John Michael Doar
  • Burke Marshall
  • Harold R. Tyler
  • W. Wilson White

    Criminal Division

  • Kenneth Polite
  • Brian Benczkowski
  • Leslie Caldwell
  • Lanny Breuer
  • Alice Fisher
  • Christopher A. Wray
  • Michael Chertoff
  • James Robinson
  • Jo Ann Harris
  • Robert Mueller
  • Edward S.G. Dennis
  • William Weld
  • Stephen S. Trott
  • D. Lowell Jensen
  • Philip Heymann
  • Benjamin Civiletti
  • Dick Thornburgh
  • Henry E. Petersen
  • Will Wilson
  • Fred Vinson Jr.
  • Herbert Miller Jr.
  • Malcolm R. Wilkey
  • Malcolm Anderson
  • Warren Olney III
  • Charles B. Murray
  • James M. McInerney
  • Alexander M. Campbell
  • T. Vincent Quinn
  • Theron Caudle
  • Tom C. Clark
  • Wendell Berge
  • O. John Rogge
  • Brien McMahon
  • Joseph B. Keenan
  • Pat Malloy
  • E. Nugent Dodds
  • Oscar R. Luhring
  • William J. Donovan
  • Earl J. Davis
  • John Crim
  • Robert P. Stewart

    National Security Division

Environment and Natural Resources Division

  • Ernest Knaebel
  • Ramsey Clark
  • Jeffrey Clark
  • Todd Kim

    Justice Management Division

  • Jolene Ann Lauria

    Tax Division

  • Robert H. Jackson
  • Mabel Walker Willebrandt

    Office of Justice Programs

  • Jimmy Gurulé
  • Laurie O. Robinson

    Office of Legal Counsel

Office of Legal Policy

  • Viet D. Dinh
  • Daniel J. Bryant
  • Rachel Brand
  • Elisebeth C. Cook
  • Christopher H. Schroeder
  • Beth Ann Williams
  • Hampton Dellinger

    Office of Legislative Affairs

  • Carlos Uriarte
  • Peter Hyun
  • Helaine Greenfeld (January 2021 – November 2021; acting