United States Deputy Attorney General

United States Deputy Attorney General
United States Deputy Attorney General
	Seal of the Department of Justice
	Incumbent; Todd Blanche; since March 6, 2025
	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
Constituting instrument	28 U.S.C. § 504
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.^[2]

List of United States deputy attorneys general

#	Name	Term began	Term ended	President(s) served under
1	Peyton Ford	May 24, 1950	1951^[3]	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	Dwight D. Eisenhower
6	Byron White	January 20, 1961	April 16, 1962	John F. Kennedy
7	Nicholas Katzenbach	April 16, 1962	January 28, 1965	John F. Kennedy
7	Nicholas Katzenbach	April 16, 1962	January 28, 1965	John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson
8	Ramsey Clark	January 28, 1965	March 10, 1967	Lyndon B. Johnson
9	Warren Christopher	March 10, 1967	January 20, 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson
10	Richard Kleindienst	January 20, 1969	June 12, 1972	Richard Nixon
11	Ralph E. Erickson	June 1972	February 1973
12	Joseph Tyree Sneed III	February 1973	July 9, 1973
13	William Ruckelshaus	July 9, 1973	October 20, 1973
14	Laurence Silberman	January 20, 1974	April 6, 1975	Richard Nixon Gerald Ford
15	Harold R. Tyler Jr.	April 6, 1975	January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford
Acting	Dick Thornburgh	January 20, 1977	March 12, 1977	Jimmy Carter
16	Peter F. Flaherty	April 12, 1977	December 9, 1977
17	Benjamin Civiletti	May 16, 1978	August 16, 1979
Acting	Charles Ruff	August 16, 1979	February 27, 1980
18	Charles Byron Renfrew	February 27, 1980	January 19, 1981
19	Edward C. Schmults	February 1981	February 3, 1984	Ronald Reagan
20	Carol E. Dinkins	May 23, 1984	April 1985
21	D. Lowell Jensen	May 1985	June 25, 1986
22	Arnold Burns	July 1986	July 1988
23	Harold G. Christensen	July 1988	May 22, 1989
24	Donald B. Ayer	November 1989	May 11, 1990	George H. W. Bush
25	William Barr	May 26, 1990	November 26, 1991
26	George J. Terwilliger III	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	May 13, 2015
36	Sally Yates	May 13, 2015	January 30, 2017	Barack Obama Donald Trump
Acting	Dana Boente	February 9, 2017	April 26, 2017	Donald Trump
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	January 20, 2021
Acting	John P. Carlin	January 20, 2021	April 21, 2021	Joe Biden
39	Lisa Monaco	April 21, 2021	January 20, 2025	Joe Biden
Acting	Emil Bove	January 20, 2025	March 6, 2025	Donald Trump
40	Todd Blanche	March 6, 2025	Incumbent	Donald Trump

References

^ "Meet the Acting Deputy Attorney General | DAG | Department of Justice". Archived from the original on March 1, 2017. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
^ "DOJ: JMD: MPS: Functions Manual: Attorney General". Retrieved January 25, 2009.
^ "The President's Day". Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. August 3, 1951. Retrieved February 23, 2016.

External links

Official website

[1] "Meet the Acting Deputy Attorney General | DAG | Department of Justice". Archived from the original on March 1, 2017. Retrieved January 21, 2025.

[2] "DOJ: JMD: MPS: Functions Manual: Attorney General". Retrieved January 25, 2009.

[3] "The President's Day". Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. August 3, 1951. Retrieved February 23, 2016.

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