The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice,and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States. The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all legal matters. The attorney general is a statutory member of the Cabinet of the United States.
Larry J. Echo Hawk is an American attorney,legal scholar,and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,Echo Hawk served under U.S. President Barack Obama as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs from 2009 to 2012. He previously served as the Attorney General of Idaho from 1991 to 1995,the first Native American elected to the position,and spent two terms in the Idaho House of Representatives. In 2012,he was called as a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As of 2022,Echo Hawk is the last Democrat to have served as Attorney General of Idaho.
The United States Department of Justice National Security Division (NSD) handles 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 functions into a single division. The division is headed by the Assistant Attorney General for National Security.
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,a United States' federal law enforcement agency,and is responsible for its day-to-day operations. The FBI director is appointed for a single 10-year term by the president of the United States and confirmed by the Senate. The FBI is an agency within the Department of Justice (DOJ),and thus the director reports to the attorney general of the United States.
Cheryl D. Mills is an American lawyer and corporate executive. She first came into public prominence while serving as deputy White House Counsel for President Bill Clinton,whom she defended during his 1999 impeachment trial. She has worked for New York University as Senior Vice President,served as Senior Adviser and Counsel for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign,and is considered a member of Hillary Clinton's group of core advisers,self-designated as "Hillaryland". She served as counselor and chief of staff to Hillary Clinton during her whole tenure as United States Secretary of State. After leaving the State Department in January,2013,she founded BlackIvy Group,which builds businesses in Africa.
Christine A. Varney is an American antitrust attorney who served as the U.S. assistant attorney general of the Antitrust Division for the Obama Administration and as a Federal Trade commissioner in the Clinton Administration. Since August 2011,Varney has been a partner of the New York law firm Cravath,Swaine &Moore,where she chairs the antitrust department.
The United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) is one of seven litigating components of the U.S. Department of Justice. ENRD's mandate is to enforce civil and criminal environmental laws and programs protecting the health and environment of the United States,and to defend suits challenging those laws and programs.
The United States 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 order of Attorney General William P. Rogers,after the Civil Rights Act of 1957 created the office of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights,who has since then headed the division. The head of the Civil Rights Division is an Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (AAG-CR) appointed by the President. Kristen Clarke is the current Assistant Attorney General,the first woman to be confirmed by the Senate for the position.
John Henry Durham is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut from 2018 to 2021. By April 2019,the Trump administration assigned him to investigate the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections,and in October 2020 he was appointed special counsel for the Department of Justice on that matter.
Ignacia Soledad Moreno is an American lawyer who was the Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division until June 2013.
Harold Watson "Trey" Gowdy III is an American television news presenter,former politician and former federal prosecutor who served as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. His district included much of the Upstate region of South Carolina,including Greenville and Spartanburg.
Marisela Morales Ibáñez is a Mexican lawyer who served as Attorney General of Mexico in 2011.
Derek Anthony West is an American attorney and former government official,and the current Senior Vice President and chief legal officer of Uber. Before Uber,West was Associate Attorney General of the United States and general counsel of PepsiCo. West previously served as the Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division,the largest litigating division in the Department of Justice.
Ryan Douglas Nelson is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was previously nominated to become Solicitor of the United States Department of the Interior,but was never confirmed.
The 2017-2019 Special Counsel investigation involved multiple legal teams,specifically the attorneys,supervised by Special Counsel Robert Mueller,taking part in the investigation;the team representing President Trump in his personal capacity;and the team representing the White House as an institution separate from the President.
Timothy J. Downing is an American attorney and former politician who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma from 2019 to 2021. He represented the 42nd district in the Oklahoma House of Representatives as a Republican from 2016 to 2018. He currently serves as a judge on the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.
Judson P. Deere is an American political advisor who served as deputy assistant to the president and White House deputy press secretary in the administration of Donald Trump.
The 2018 United States attorney general elections were held on November 6,2018,in 30 states,2 territories,and the District of Columbia. The previous attorney general elections for this group of states took place in 2014,except in Vermont where attorneys general serve only two-year terms and elected their current attorney general in 2016.
Lucy Lang is an American attorney,author,and the 11th Inspector General of New York.
