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.[1] United States Department of Justice components that are led by an Assistant Attorney General are:
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).
This is a listing of United States Assistant Attorneys General.
| Name | Years of Service | Appointed By President |
|---|---|---|
| Titian J. Coffey | 1880–1884 | Chester A. Arthur |
| Zachariah Montgomery | 1885–1889 | Grover Cleveland |
| William Arden Maury | 1889–1893 | Benjamin Harrison |
| Roger Wilkins | 1966–1969 | Lyndon Johnson |
| Wesley Pomeroy | 1968–1969 | Richard Nixon |
| William L. Frierson | 1917–1921 | Woodrow Wilson |
| Ernest Knaebel | 1911–1916 | Woodrow Wilson |
| William H. Lewis | 1910 | William Taft |
| Edward Terry Sanford | 1907–1908 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| James Alexander Fowler | 1908-1911 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| James Clark McReynolds | 1903–1907 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Holmes Conrad | 1893–1895 | Grover Cleveland |
| Edward Baldwin Whitney | 1895-1897 | Grover Cleveland |
| John C. Chaney | 1889–1893 | Benjamin Harrison |
| Name | Years of Service | Appointed By |
|---|---|---|
| William Joseph Donovan | 1926–1927 | Calvin Coolidge |
| Robert H. Jackson | 1937–1938 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Thurman Arnold | 1938–1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Wendell Berge | 1943–1947 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| John F. Sonnet | 1947–1948 | Harry S. Truman |
| Herbert Bergson | 1948–1950 | Harry S. Truman |
| Leonard Bessman | 1950–1951 | Harry S. Truman |
| H. Graham Morison | 1951–1952 | Harry S. Truman |
| Newell A. Clapp | 1952–1953 | acting |
| Stanley Barnes | 1953–1956 | Eisenhower |
| Victor R. Hansen | 1956–1959 | Eisenhower |
| Robert A. Bicks | 1959–1961 | Eisenhower |
| Lee Loevinger | 1961–1963 | Kennedy |
| William Horsley Orrick, Jr. | 1963–1965 | Kennedy |
| Donald F. Turner | 1965–1968 | Lyndon Johnson |
| Edwin Zimmerman | 1968–1969 | Lyndon Johnson |
| Richard W. McLaren | 1969–1972 | Richard Nixon |
| Walker B. Comegys | 1972 | acting |
| Thomas E. Kauper | 1972-1976 | Richard Nixon |
| Donald I. Baker | 1976-1977 | Gerald R. Ford |
| John H. Shenefield | 1977-1979 | Jimmy Carter |
| Sanford Litvack | 1979-1981 | Jimmy Carter |
| William Baxter | 1981–1983 | Ronald Reagan |
| J. Paul McGrath | 1983–1985 | Ronald Reagan |
| Douglas H. Ginsburg | 1985–1986 | Ronald Reagan |
| Charles Rule | 1986–1989 | Ronald Reagan |
| James F. Rill | 1989–1992 | George H.W. Bush |
| Charles James | 1992 | acting |
| J. Mark Ridley | 1992–1993 | acting |
| Anne Bingaman | 1993–1996 | Bill Clinton |
| Joel Klein | 1996–2000 | Bill Clinton |
| Douglas Melamed | 2000–2001 | acting |
| Charles James | 2001–2003 | George W. Bush |
| R. Hewitt Pate | 2003–2005 | George W. Bush |
| Thomas O. Barnett | 2005–2008 | George W. Bush |
| Deborah A. Garza | 2008–2009 | acting |
| Christine A. Varney | 2009–present | Barack Obama |