Many of the divisions and offices of the United States Department of Justice

United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice , is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated...

 are headed by an Assistant Attorney General.

The President of the United States

President of the United States

The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

 appoints individuals to the position of Assistant Attorney General with the advice and consent

Advice and consent

Advice and consent is an English phrase frequently used in enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts, describing a situation in which the executive branch of a government enacts something previously approved of by the legislative branch.-General:The expression is...

 of the Senate

United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

. United States Department of Justice components that are led by an Assistant Attorney General are:

• Antitrust Division
  United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division
  The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division is responsible for enforcing the antitrust laws of the United States. It shares jurisdiction over civil antitrust cases with the Federal Trade Commission and often works jointly with the FTC to provide regulatory guidance to businesses...
  
  
• Civil Division
  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...
  
  
• Civil Rights Division
  United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
  The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is the institution within the federal government responsible for enforcing federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, religion, and national origin. The Division was established on December 9, 1957, by...
  
  
• Criminal Division
  United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
  The U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division develops, enforces, and supervises the application of all federal criminal laws in the United States, except those specifically assigned to other divisions. Criminal Division attorneys prosecute many nationally significant cases and formulate and...
  
  
• National Security Division
  United States Department of Justice National Security Division
  The United States Department of Justice National Security Division is the division of the DOJ that handles all national security functions of the Department. Created by the 2005 USA PATRIOT Act reauthorization, the Division consolidated all of the Department's national security and intelligence...
  
  
• Environment and Natural Resources Division
  United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division
  The U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division is one of seven litigating components of the United States Department of Justice...
  
   (ENRD)
• Justice Management Division
  United States Department of Justice Justice Management Division
  The Justice Management Division is a division of the United States Department of Justice. It is the administrative arm of the Department of Justice. Its mission is to support the some 40 senior management offices , offices, bureaus, and divisions of the DOJ...
  
   (JMD)
• Tax Division
  United States Department of Justice Tax Division
  The United States Department of Justice Tax Division is responsible for the prosecution of both civil and criminal cases arising under the Internal Revenue Code and other tax laws of the United States...
  
  
• Office of Justice Programs
  Office of Justice Programs
  The Office of Justice Programs is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that focuses on crime prevention through research and development, assistance to state and local law enforcement and criminal justice agencies through grants, and assistance to crime victims.The major bureaus...
  
   (OJP)
• Office of Legal Counsel
  Office of Legal Counsel
  The Office of Legal Counsel is an office in the United States Department of Justice that assists the Attorney General in his function as legal adviser to the President and all executive branch agencies.-History:...
  
   (OLC)
• Office of Legal Policy
  Office of Legal Policy
  The Office of Legal Policy is a division within the United States Department of Justice which describes itself as the "focal point for the development and coordination of Departmental policy." In addition to rendering legal advice to the United States Attorney General and subordinate offices within...
  
   (OLP)
• Office of Legislative Affairs
  Office of Legislative Affairs
  The Office of Legislative Affairs is a division within the United States Department of Justice. Its responsibility is for the development and implementation of strategies to advance the Department's legislative initiatives and other interests relating to Congress....
  
   (OLA)

Assistant Attorneys General report either to the Deputy Attorney General

United States Deputy Attorney General

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...

 (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

United States Associate Attorney General

The Associate Attorney General is the third-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice. The Associate Attorney General advises and assists the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General in policies relating to civil justice, federal and local law enforcement, and public...

 (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.

{| class="wikitable"

Assistant Attorney General

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! Name !! Years of Service !! Appointed By President
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| Titian J. Coffey || 1880–1884 || Chester A. Arthur
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| Zachariah Montgomery

Zachariah Montgomery

Zachariah "Zach" Montgomery was a publisher, lawyer, politician, and author, particularly known for his skills as an orator....

 || 1885–1889 || Grover Cleveland
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| William Arden Maury || 1889–1893 || Benjamin Harrison
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| Roger Wilkins

Roger Wilkins

Roger Wilkins is an African American civil rights leader, professor of history, and journalist.-Biography:Wilkins was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Michigan...

 || 1966–1969 || Lyndon Johnson
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| Wesley Pomeroy

Wesley Pomeroy

Wesley A.C. Pomeroy was an American lawyer, Assistant US Attorney General, Federal Coordinator for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Assistant Director of the DEA, and founding member of various humanitarian and policy-making organizations.-Early years:Pomeroy was born in Burbank, CA...

 || 1968–1969 || Richard Nixon
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| William L. Frierson

William L. Frierson

William Little Frierson was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. During his career he served as the United States Solicitor General , United States Assistant Attorney General , and mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee .Frierson was born on September 3, 1868, in Shelbyville, Tennessee to Robert...

 || 1917–1921 || Woodrow Wilson
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| Ernest Knaebel

Ernest Knaebel

Ernest Knaebel was an American lawyer and the eleventh reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1916 to 1944....

 || 1911–1916 || Woodrow Wilson
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| William H. Lewis

William H. Lewis

William Henry Lewis was an African-American pioneer in athletics, politics and law. He was the first African-American college football player, the first in the sport to be selected as an All-American, the first to be appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney, the first to become a member...

 || 1910 || William Taft
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| Edward Terry Sanford

Edward Terry Sanford

Edward Terry Sanford was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court from 1923 until his death in 1930. Prior to his nomination to the high court, Sanford served as an Assistant Attorney General under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1905 to 1907, and...

 || 1907–1908 || Theodore Roosevelt
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| James Alexander Fowler

James Alexander Fowler

James Alexander Fowler was an American lawyer who served in various capacities as an Assistant Attorney General and Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General from 1908 to 1914, and from 1921 to 1926...

 || 1908-1911 || Theodore Roosevelt
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| James Clark McReynolds

James Clark McReynolds

James Clark McReynolds was an American lawyer and judge who served as United States Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson and as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court...

 || 1903–1907 || Theodore Roosevelt
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| Holmes Conrad

Holmes Conrad

Holmes Conrad was an American politician, lawyer and military officer.-Early life:Conrad was born in Winchester, Virginia. He was the son of Robert Young Conrad, a prominent lawyer of Winchester, and state attorney general from 1857 to 1862; his mother was Elizabeth Whiting, daughter of Burr Powell...

 || 1893–1895 || Grover Cleveland
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| Edward Baldwin Whitney

Edward Baldwin Whitney

-Life:Edward Baldwin Whitney was born August 16, 1857. His father was linguist William Dwight Whitney of the new England Dwight family. His mother was Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin, daughter of US Senator and Governor of Connecticut Roger Sherman Baldwin....

 || 1895-1897 || Grover Cleveland
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| John C. Chaney

John C. Chaney

John Crawford Chaney was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born near Lisbon, Ohio, Chaney, in 1854, moved to Lafayette Township, Indiana, with his parents, who settled on a farm near Fort Wayne....

 || 1889–1893 || Benjamin Harrison
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Antitrust Division

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! Name !! Years of Service !! Appointed By
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| William Joseph Donovan || 1926–1927 || Calvin Coolidge
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| Robert H. Jackson || 1937–1938 || Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| Thurman Arnold || 1938–1943 || Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| Wendell Berge || 1943–1947 || Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| John F. Sonnet || 1947–1948 || Harry S. Truman
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| Herbert Bergson || 1948–1950 || Harry S. Truman
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| Leonard Bessman || 1950–1951 || Harry S. Truman
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| H. Graham Morison || 1951–1952 || Harry S. Truman
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| Newell A. Clapp || 1952–1953 || acting
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| Stanley Barnes || 1953–1956 || Eisenhower
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| Victor R. Hansen || 1956–1959 || Eisenhower
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| Robert A. Bicks || 1959–1961 || Eisenhower
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| Lee Loevinger || 1961–1963 || Kennedy
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| William Horsley Orrick, Jr. || 1963–1965 || Kennedy
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| Donald F. Turner || 1965–1968 || Lyndon Johnson
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| Edwin Zimmerman || 1968–1969 || Lyndon Johnson
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| Richard W. McLaren || 1969–1972 || Richard Nixon
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| Walker B. Comegys || 1972 || acting
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| Thomas E. Kauper || 1972-1976 || Richard Nixon
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| Donald I. Baker || 1976-1977 || Gerald R. Ford
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| John H. Shenefield || 1977-1979 || Jimmy Carter
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| Sanford Litvack || 1979-1981 || Jimmy Carter
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| William Baxter (law professor)|William Baxter || 1981–1983 || Ronald Reagan
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| J. Paul McGrath || 1983–1985 || Ronald Reagan
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| Douglas H. Ginsburg || 1985–1986 || Ronald Reagan
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| Charles Rule || 1986–1989 || Ronald Reagan
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| James F. Rill || 1989–1992 || George H.W. Bush
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| Charles James (attorney)|Charles James || 1992 || acting
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| J. Mark Ridley || 1992–1993 || acting
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| Anne Bingaman || 1993–1996 || Bill Clinton
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| Joel Klein || 1996–2000 || Bill Clinton
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| Douglas Melamed || 2000–2001 || acting
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| Charles James (attorney)|Charles James || 2001–2003 || George W. Bush
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| R. Hewitt Pate || 2003–2005 || George W. Bush
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| Thomas O. Barnett || 2005–2008 || George W. Bush
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| Deborah A. Garza || 2008–2009 || acting
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| Christine A. Varney || 2009–present || Barack Obama
|}

Civil Division

• Peter D. Keisler, (2003-Current)
• Robert McCallum, Jr.
  Robert McCallum, Jr.
  Robert D. McCallum. Jr. was the United States Ambassador to Australia. He was sworn into this position on 21 July 2006, after his appointment by President George W. Bush was confirmed by the United States Senate. He arrived in Australia on 18 August and presented his credentials to the...
  
  , (2001–2003)
• Rex E. Lee
  Rex E. Lee
  Rex Edwin Lee from St. Johns, Arizona was a Constitutional lawyer, a law clerk for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and the United States Solicitor General under the Reagan administration. He argued 59 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court...
  
   (1975–1976)
• L. Patrick Gray
  L. Patrick Gray
  Louis Patrick Gray III was acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from May 2, 1972 to April 27, 1973. During this time, the FBI was in charge of the initial investigation into the burglaries that sparked the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President...
  
   (1970–1972)
• Carla Anderson Hills
  Carla Anderson Hills
  Carla Anderson Hills is an American lawyer and a public figure. She served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Gerald Ford administration, and as U.S. Trade Representative...
  
   (1959–1961)
• Warren E. Burger
  Warren E. Burger
  Warren Earl Burger was the 15th Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Although Burger had conservative leanings, the U.S...
  
   (1953–1956)

Civil Rights Division

• Thomas Perez
  Thomas Perez
  Thomas Edward Perez is the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice...
  
  , (2009-Current)
• Wan J. Kim
  Wan J. Kim
  Wan J. Kim is the former Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, a position in which he served from November 9, 2005 to August 31, 2007...
  
  , (2005–2007)
• Bradley Schlozman
  Bradley Schlozman
  Bradley J. Schlozman is an American attorney who served as acting head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Schlozman was also later appointed by Gonzales as the interim U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri,...
  
  
• Bill Lann Lee
  Bill Lann Lee
  Bill Lann Lee is a Chinese American civil rights lawyer who served as Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division under President Bill Clinton....
  
  
• Deval Patrick
  Deval Patrick
  Deval Laurdine Patrick is the 71st and current Governor of Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, Patrick served as an Assistant United States Attorney General under President Bill Clinton...
  
  , (1994–1997)
• John R. Dunne
• Drew S. Days, III
  Drew S. Days, III
  Drew Saunders Days III an American lawyer, served as United States Solicitor General from 1993 to 1996 under President Bill Clinton. He also served as the first African American Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division in the Carter Administration from 1977 to 1980.He is the Alfred M...
  
   (1977–1980)
• Burke Marshall
  Burke Marshall
  Burke Marshall was an American lawyer and head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice during the Civil Rights Era.-Early years:...
  
   (1961–1964)

Criminal Division

• Robert Mueller
  Robert Mueller
  Robert Swan Mueller III is the 6th and current Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation .-Early life:...
  
   (1990-1991)
• William Weld
  William Weld
  William Floyd Weld is a former governor of the US state of Massachusetts. He served as that state's 68th governor from 1991 to 1997. From 1981 to 1988, he was a federal prosecutor in the United States Justice Department...
  
   (1986–1988)
• Dick Thornburgh
  Dick Thornburgh
  Richard Lewis "Dick" Thornburgh is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as the 41st Governor of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1987, and then as the U.S...
  
   (1975-1977)
• Brien McMahon
  Brien McMahon
  Brien McMahon, born James O'Brien McMahon was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States Senate from 1945 to 1952...
  
   (1935–1939)

National Security Division

• Robert Mardian
  Robert Mardian
  Robert Charles Mardian was a former United States Republican party official who served in the administration of Richard Nixon, but was embroiled in the Watergate scandal as one of the Watergate Seven who were indicted by a grand jury for campaign violations...
  
  , (1970–1974) Internal Security Division
• Thomas J. Spellacy
  Thomas J. Spellacy
  Thomas Joseph Spellacy was an American political leader and lawyer. He is best remembered for his years as the mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, but held several other offices and was one of Connecticut's most prominent Democrats over a period of more than 50 years.- Early life and career :Spellacy...
  
  , (1919–1921) Enemy Custodianship Department

Environment and Natural Resources Division

• Ramsey Clark
  Ramsey Clark
  William Ramsey Clark is an American lawyer, activist and former public official. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, which included service as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969, under President Lyndon B. Johnson...
  
   (1961–1965) Lands Division

Tax Division

• Robert H. Jackson
  Robert H. Jackson
  Robert Houghwout Jackson was United States Attorney General and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court . He was also the chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials...
  
   (1936–1938)
• Mabel Walker Willebrandt
  Mabel Walker Willebrandt
  Mabel Walker Willebrandt , popularly known to her contemporaries as the "First Lady of Law", was the U.S. Assistant Attorney General from 1921 to 1929, handling cases concerning violations of the Volstead Act, federal taxation, and the Bureau of Federal Prisons during the Prohibition Era.-Early...
  
   (1921–1929)

Office of Legal Counsel

• William Barr
  William Barr (politician)
  William Pelham Barr is an American attorney who served as the 77th Attorney General of the United States.Barr, the son of Mary and Donald Barr, Columbia University faculty members, was born in New York City and grew up on the Upper West side of Manhattan, attended Catholic parochial school Corpus...
  
   (1989–1990)
• Walter E. Dellinger III
  Walter E. Dellinger III
  Walter Estes Dellinger III is the Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University and head of the appellate practice at O’Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. He also currently leads Harvard Law School's . He served as the acting United States Solicitor General for the 1996-1997 Term of the...
  
   (1993–1996)
• Theodore Olson
  Theodore Olson
  Theodore Bevry Olson is a former United States Solicitor General, serving from June 2001 to July 2004 under President George W. Bush.- Early life :...
  
   (1981–1984)
• John M. Harmon
  John Harmon (attorney)
  John M. Harmon is an American lawyer who serverd as United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel during the Jimmy Carter administration.-Biography:...
  
   (1977–1981)
• Antonin Scalia
  Antonin Scalia
  Antonin Gregory Scalia is an American jurist who serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. As the longest-serving justice on the Court, Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice...
  
   (1974–1977)
• William Rehnquist
  William Rehnquist
  William Hubbs Rehnquist was an American lawyer, jurist, and political figure who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States and later as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States...
  
   (1969–1971)
• Nicholas Katzenbach
  Nicholas Katzenbach
  Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach is an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney General during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.-Early life:...
  
  , (1961–1962)
• J. Lee Rankin
  J. Lee Rankin
  J. Lee Rankin was the 31st United States Solicitor General, from 1956 to 1961. In 1952, Rankin managed the Dwight Eisenhower for President campaign in Nebraska and in 1953, Eisenhower selected Rankin to serve as United States Assistant Attorney General.Known for his straightforward, quiet, and...
  
   (1953–1956)

Office of Legal Policy

• Viet D. Dinh
  Viet D. Dinh
  Viet D. Dinh is a lawyer and a conservative legal scholar who served as an Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2003, under the presidency of George W. Bush. Born in Saigon, in the former South Vietnam, he was the chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act.-Early life:Dinh was...
  
   (2001–2003)
• Daniel J. Bryant (2003–2005)
• Rachel Brand (2005–2007)
• Elisebeth C. Cook (2008-2009)
• Christopher H. Schroeder
  Christopher H. Schroeder
  Christopher Henry Schroeder is the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy for the United States Department of Justice. He also is the Charles S...
  
   (2010–present)

Office of Legislative Affairs

• Richard Hertling
  Richard Hertling
  Richard Hertling was Acting United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs from January 2007 to July 2007. Born and raised in New York City, Hertling is a graduate of Brown University and The University of Chicago Law School. He is also former Chief of Staff to Sen....
  
  
• Jon Jennings
  Jon Jennings
  Jon Paul Jennings is an American politician and basketball coach currently serving as the president and general manager of the Maine Red Claws of the NBA Development League....
  
   (1999–2000)
• John R. Bolton
  John R. Bolton
  John Robert Bolton is an American lawyer and diplomat who has served in several Republican presidential administrations. He served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations from August 2005 until December 2006 on a recess appointment...
  
   (1985–1989)
• Patricia Wald
  Patricia Wald
  Patricia McGowan Wald is an American judge. Wald served as the chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and served as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.Wald graduated from Connecticut College in 1948 and earned...
  
  (1977–1979)