Many of the divisions and offices of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) 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 (ENRD)
Justice Management Division (JMD)
National Security Division
Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA)
Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)
Office of Legal Policy (OLP)
Tax Division
National Fraud Enforcement Division
Assistant attorneys general report either to the deputy attorney general (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 (in the case of the Antitrust, Civil, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, and Tax Divisions and the Office of Justice Programs).
Contents
List of U.S. assistant attorneys general
Civil Rights Division
Harmeet Dhillon (Assuming office 2025)
Mac Warner (Acting 2025–present)
Kristen Clarke (2021–2025)
Eric Dreiband (2018–2021)
John M. Gore (Acting 2017–2018)
Thomas E. Wheeler II (Acting 2017)
Vanita Gupta (Acting 2014–2017)
Molly J. Moran (Acting 2014)
Jocelyn Samuels (Acting 2013–2014)
Thomas Perez, (2009–2013)
Grace Chung Becker (Acting 2008)
Wan J. Kim, (2005–2007)
R. Alexander Acosta (2003–2005)
Bradley Schlozman (Acting 2003)
Ralph F. Boyd Jr. (2001–2003)
William R. Yeomans (Acting 2001)
Bill Lann Lee (1997–2001)
Deval Patrick, (1994–1997)
James P. Turner (Acting 1993–94)
John R. Dunne(1990–1993)
James P. Turner (Acting 1989–1990)
William C. Lucas (Acting 1988–1989)
William Bradford Reynolds (1981–1988)
Criminal Division
Kenneth Polite (2021–2023)
Brian Benczkowski (2018–2020)
Leslie Caldwell (2014–2017)
Lanny Breuer (2009–2013)
Alice Fisher (2005–2008)
Christopher A. Wray (2003–2005)
Michael Chertoff (2001–2003)
James Robinson (1998–2001)
Jo Ann Harris (1993–1995)
Robert Mueller (1990–1993)
Edward S.G. Dennis (1988–1990)
William Weld (1986–1988)
Stephen S. Trott (1983–1986)
D. Lowell Jensen (1981–1983)
Philip Heymann (1978–1981)
Benjamin Civiletti (1977–1978)
Dick Thornburgh (1975–1977)
Henry E. Petersen (1972–1974)
Will Wilson (1969–1971)
Fred Vinson Jr. (1965–1969)
Herbert Miller Jr. (1961–1965)
Malcolm R. Wilkey (1959–1961)
Malcolm Anderson (1958–1959)
Warren Olney III (1953–1957)
Environment and Natural Resources Division
Ernest Knaebel (1911–1916)
Ramsey Clark (1961–1965)
Jeffrey Clark (2018–2021)
Todd Kim (2021–2025)
Justice Management Division
Jolene Ann Lauria
Tax Division
Robert H. Jackson (1936–1938)
Mabel Walker Willebrandt (1921–1929)
Office of Justice Programs
Jimmy Gurulé (1990–1992)
Laurie O. Robinson
Office of Legal Policy
Viet D. Dinh (2001–2003)
Daniel J. Bryant (2003–2005)
Rachel Brand (2005–2007)
Elisebeth C. Cook (2008–2009)
Christopher H. Schroeder (2010–2012)
Beth Ann Williams (2017–2020)
Hampton Dellinger (2021–2024)
Aaron Reitz (2025)
Daniel E. Burrows (2026–present)
Office of Legislative Affairs
Carlos Uriarte (August 2022 - January 2025)
Peter Hyun (November 2021 – August 2022; acting)
Helaine Greenfeld (January 2021 – November 2021; acting)
Stephen Boyd (August 2017 – January 2021)
Peter J. Kadzik (June 2014 – January 2017)
Judith C. Appelbaum (June 13, 2012–?)
Ronald H. Weich (April 29, 2009 – April 25, 2012)
Richard Hertling (2003–2007)
Daniel J. Bryant (2001–2003)
Robert Raben (1999–2001)
Jon Jennings Acting (1998–1999)
L. Anthony Sutin (1998)
John R. Bolton (1985–1989)
Robert A. McConnell (1981–1985)
Patricia Wald (1977–1979)
Michael Uhlmann (1975–1977)
Mitch McConnell (1975, acting)
W. Vincent Rakestraw (March 3, 1974 – February 1, 1975)
Mike McKevitt (1973)
National Fraud Enforcement Division
Colin McDonald (2026)
War Division (1942-1945)
James W. Morris (1942–1943)
Tom C. Clark (1943–1945)