United States Department of Justice Civil Division

The United States Department of Justice Civil Division represents the United States, its departments and agencies, members of Congress, cabinet officers, and other federal employees. Its litigation reflects the diversity of government activities, involving, for example, the defense of challenges to Presidential actions; national security issues; benefit programs; energy policies; commercial issues such as contract disputes, banking insurance, patents, fraud, and debt collection; all manner of accident and liability claims; enforcement of immigration laws; and civil and criminal violations of consumer protection laws. Each year, Division attorneys handle thousands of cases that collectively involve billions of dollars in claims and recoveries. The Division confronts significant policy issues, which often rise to constitutional dimensions, in defending and enforcing various Federal programs and actions. The Civil Division is currently led by Principal Deputy Assistant General Benjamin C. Mizer, filling the vacancy created by Assistant Attorney General Stuart F. Delery.^[1]

Organization

The Civil Division is made up of the following offices:

Appellate Staff
Commercial Litigation Branch
- Civil Frauds Section
- General Corporate/Financial Litigation Section
- Intellectual Property Section
- Foreign Litigation Section
- National Courts Section
Consumer Protection Branch
Federal Programs Branch
- National Security, Foreign Relations, and Law Enforcement Section
- Interstate and Foreign Commerce Section
- Government Agencies and Corporations Section
- Nondiscrimination Personnel Litigation Section
- Discrimination in Employment Litigation Section
- Human Resources Section
- Interior, Agriculture, and Energy Concerns Section
- Housing and Community Development Section
- Freedom of Information and Privacy Section
- Regulatory Enforcement and Defensive Banking Litigation Section
- Disability Litigation Section
Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL)
- Appellate Section
- District Court Section
Office of Management Programs
Torts Branch
- Aviation and Admiralty Section
- Federal Tort Claims Act Section
- Environmental Torts Section
- Constitutional and Specialized Torts Section
- Tobacco Litigation Section

List of Assistant Attorneys General

Former Assistant Attorney General and future Chief Justice of the United States, Warren E. Burger

Carla Anderson Hills, the first woman Assistant Attorney General

Tony West, the first African American Assistant Attorney General

#	Name	Term Began	Term Ended	President(s) served under
1	Charles B. Rugg	1930	1933	Herbert Hoover
2	George C. Sweeney	1933	1935	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
3	Angus D. MacLean	1935
4	James W. Morris	1935	1937
5	Sam E. Whitaker	1937	1939
6	Francis Michael Shea	1939	1945
7	John F. Sonnett	1945	1947	Harry S. Truman
8	Peyton Ford	1947	1949
9	H. Graham Morison	1949	1951
10	Holmes Baldridge	1951	1953
11	Warren E. Burger	1953	1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower
12	George Cochran Doub	1953	1960	Dwight D. Eisenhower
13	William Horsley Orrick, Jr.	1961	1963	John F. Kennedy
14	John W. Douglas	1963	1966	John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson
15	Harold Barefoot Sanders, Jr.	1966	1967	Lyndon B. Johnson
16	Edwin L. Weisl, Jr.	1967	1969	Lyndon B. Johnson
17	William Ruckelshaus	1969	1970	Richard M. Nixon
18	L. Patrick Gray	1970	1972
19	Harlington Wood, Jr.	1972	1973
20	Carla Anderson Hills	1973	1975
21	Rex E. Lee	1975	1977	Gerald R. Ford
22	Barbara A. Babcock	1977	1979	Jimmy Carter
23	Alice Daniels	1979	1981	Jimmy Carter
24	Paul J. McGrath	1981	1985	Ronald Reagan
25	Richard K. Willard	1985	1988
26	John R. Bolton	1988	1989
27	Stuart M. Gerson	1989	1993	George H.W. Bush
28	Frank W. Hunger	1993	1999	Bill Clinton
29	David W. Ogden	1999	2001	Bill Clinton
30	Robert D. McCallum, Jr.	2001	2003	George W. Bush
31	Peter D. Keisler	2003	2007
32	Gregory G. Katsas	2008	2009
34	Tony West	2009	2012	Barack Obama
35	Stuart F. Delery	2012	2014	Barack Obama
Source:^[2]

References

↑ https://www.justice.gov/civil/meet-principal-deputy-assistant-attorney-general
↑ United States Department of Justice (November 8, 2013). "FEDERAL ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL". justice.gov.

External links

US DOJ Civil Division home page

Agencies under the United States Department of Justice

Headquarters: Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building Loretta Lynch, Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates, Deputy Attorney General

Deputy Attorneys General	Justice Management Division Criminal Division National Security Division Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Drug Enforcement Administration Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Bureau of Prisons National Institute of Corrections United States Marshals Service Executive Office for Immigration Review Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management Office of the Federal Detention Trustee Office of Intelligence Policy and Review Office of the Pardon Attorney Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties Office of Professional Responsibility Office on Sexual Violence and Crimes against Children Office of Tribal Justice Professional Responsibility Advisory Office United States Attorneys INTERPOL, U.S. National Central Bureau National Drug Intelligence Center United States Parole Commission Office of Legal Counsel

Associate Attorneys General	Office of Justice Programs Office of Dispute Resolution Office on Violence Against Women Community Oriented Policing Services Office of Information Policy Foreign Claims Settlement Commission Antitrust Division Civil Division Civil Rights Division Environment and Natural Resources Division Tax Division United States Trustee Program Community Relations Service Office of Legal Policy

Assistant Attorneys General	Antitrust Division Civil Division Civil Rights Division Criminal Division National Security Division Environmental and Natural Resources Division Justice Management Division Tax Division Office of Legal Counsel Office of Legal Policy Office of Legislative Affairs Office of Justice Programs

Solicitor General

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