United States Deputy Attorney General

United States Deputy Attorney General
Seal of the Department of Justice
Incumbent Richard Donoghue Acting since December 24, 2020
United States Department of Justice
Style	Mr. Deputy Attorney General
Reports to	United States Attorney General
Seat	Department of Justice Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Appointer	The President with Senate advice and consent
Formation	May 24, 1950
First holder	Peyton Ford
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 and oversees the day-to-day operation of the Department. The Deputy Attorney General acts as Attorney General during the absence of the Attorney General.

The Deputy Attorney General is a political appointee of the President of the United States and takes office after confirmation by the United States Senate. The position was created in 1950.^[1] Richard Donoghue has been serving as the acting Deputy Attorney General since December 24, 2020.

List of United States Deputy Attorneys General

#	Image	Name	Term began	Term ended	President(s) served under
1		Peyton Ford	1950	1951[2]	Harry S. Truman
2		A. Devitt Vanech	1951	1952
3		Ross L. Malone	1952	January 20, 1953
4		William P. Rogers	January 20, 1953	October 23, 1957	Dwight D. Eisenhower
5		Lawrence Walsh	December 29, 1957	January 20, 1961
6		Byron White	January 20, 1961	April 16, 1962	John F. Kennedy
7		Nicholas Katzenbach	April 16, 1962	January 28, 1965
					Lyndon B. Johnson
8		Ramsey Clark	January 28, 1965	March 10, 1967
9		Warren Christopher	March 10, 1967	January 20, 1969
10		Richard Kleindienst	January 20, 1969	June 12, 1972	Richard Nixon
11		Ralph E. Erickson	1972	1973
12		Joseph Sneed	1973	1973
13		William Ruckelshaus	July 9, 1973	October 20, 1973
14		Laurence Silberman	1974	1975	Gerald Ford
15		Harold R. Tyler, Jr.	April 6, 1975	January 20, 1977
16		Peter F. Flaherty	April 12, 1977	1978	Jimmy Carter
17		Benjamin Civiletti	May 16 1978	August 16, 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	May 1990	George H. W. Bush
25		William P. Barr	May 26 1990	November 26, 1991
26		George Terwilliger	November 26, 1991	January 20, 1993
27		Philip Heymann	May 28, 1993	March 17, 1994	Bill Clinton
28		Jamie Gorelick	March 17, 1994	May 1997
29		Eric Holder	June 13, 1997	January 20, 2001
Acting		Robert Mueller	January 20, 2001	May 10, 2001	George W. Bush
30		Larry Thompson	May 10, 2001	August 31, 2003
31		James Comey	November 9, 2003	August 15, 2005
Acting		Robert McCallum, Jr.	August 15, 2005	March 17, 2006
32		Paul McNulty	March 17, 2006	July 26, 2007
Acting		Craig S. Morford	July 26, 2007	March 10, 2008
33		Mark Filip	March 10, 2008	January 20, 2009
34		David W. Ogden	March 12, 2009	February 5, 2010	Barack Obama
Acting		Gary Grindler	February 5, 2010	December 29, 2010
35		James M. Cole	December 29, 2010	January 8, 2015
36		Sally Yates	January 10, 2015	January 30, 2017
					Donald Trump
Acting		Dana Boente	February 9, 2017	April 25, 2017
37		Rod Rosenstein	April 26, 2017	May 11, 2019
Acting		Ed O'Callaghan	May 13, 2019	May 22, 2019
38		Jeffrey A. Rosen	May 22, 2019	December 23, 2020
Acting		Richard Donoghue	December 24, 2020	Incumbent
39		Lisa Monaco	Nominee		Joe Biden

References

External links

• Official website

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