United States Deputy Attorney General

Deputy Attorney General of the United States of America
Seal of the Department of Justice
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	Dwight D. Eisenhower
6	Byron White	1961	1962	John F. Kennedy
7	Nicholas Katzenbach	1962	1964	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	Gerald Ford
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

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

External links

Official website

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

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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

Deputy leaders of the United States federal executive departments

Current	Agriculture Commerce Defense Education Energy Health and Human Services Homeland Security Housing and Urban Development Interior Justice Labor State Transportation Treasury Veterans Affairs

Past	Commerce and Labor Health, Education, and Welfare Navy Post Office War

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