The United States Department of Justice (DOJ),also known as the Justice Department,is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States. It is equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department is headed by the U.S. attorney general,who reports directly to the president of the United States and is a member of the president's Cabinet. The current attorney general is Merrick Garland,who was sworn in on March 11,2021.
Seth Paul Waxman is an American lawyer who served as the 41st Solicitor General of the United States from 1997 to 2001. He then returned to private legal practice,and serves as the co-chairman of the appellate and Supreme Court litigation practice group at the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. As of 2022,he has appeared before the Supreme Court more than 80 times.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP,also known as Hale &Dorr and WilmerHale,is an international law firm with offices in the United States,Europe and Asia. It is co-headquartered in Washington,D.C. and Boston. It was formed in 2004 through the merger of the Boston-based firm Hale and Dorr and the Washington-based,firm Wilmer Cutler &Pickering,and employs more than 1,000 attorneys worldwide.
Bradley Joseph Schlozman is an American attorney who served as acting head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. A member of the Republican Party,Schlozman was appointed by Gonzales as the interim U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri,replacing Todd Graves,and he assumed that office on March 23,2006. In April 2007,Schlozman left the U.S. Attorney position to work at the Executive Office for United States Attorneys.
Edward Casey O'Callaghan is an American attorney and former U.S. Department of Justice official.
Andrew Neill Vollmer is an American lawyer. He retired as partner in the securities department at law firm WilmerHale. Prior to April 2009,he had been Deputy General Counsel for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and acting General Counsel. He succeeded Meyer Eisenberg as Deputy General Counsel,who retired from the Commission in early January 2006 and former General Counsel Brian Cartwright who left the Commission for the private sector in January 2009.
Stephen Woolman Preston is an American lawyer who served in administrations in Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
Edward Carroll DuMont is a former Solicitor General of California. In 2010 and 2011 he was nominated by President Barack Obama to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In November 2011,however,DuMont sent a letter to President Obama asking him to withdraw his nomination to the judgeship. Obama withdrew DuMont's nomination on November 10,2011,nominating Richard G. Taranto in DuMont's place.
James Michael Cole is an American attorney who served as United States Deputy Attorney General from December 29,2010 to January 8,2015. He was first installed as Deputy Attorney General following a recess appointment by President Barack Obama on December 29,2010. He then was confirmed by the United States Senate in a 55–42 vote on June 28,2011.
Wifredo A. "Willy" Ferrer is the former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. He was nominated on February 24,2010 by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate on April 22,2010. He was sworn in on July 16,2010 in Miami,Florida. As United States Attorney,he was the chief federal law enforcement officer for the District. Ferrer is currently the Chair of Holland &Knight's Global Compliance and Investigations Team.
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas is an American government official and attorney who has been serving as the seventh United States Secretary of Homeland Security since February 2,2021. During the Obama administration,he also served in the Department of Homeland Security,first as director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (2009–2013),and then as deputy secretary of DHS (2013–2016).
Debo Patrick Adegbile is an American lawyer in private practice who also serves as a Commissioner for the United States Civil Rights Commission. He was previously nominated to serve as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. The Senate ultimately failed to confirm his nomination. The Fraternal Order of Police objected vehemently to a brief he filed arguing that there was racial discrimination in jury selection for the trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal,who was convicted of the murder of a law enforcement officer.
Randolph Daniel Moss is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
David Samuel Cohen is an American attorney who serves as the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since January 20,2021. He also served as acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from January to March 2021. He previously occupied the role of deputy director from February 9,2015 to January 20,2017. Originally from Boston,Cohen previously worked at the U.S. Treasury Department and as an attorney in private practice. At the Treasury,among other posts,he served as the under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence where he gained the nickname of "sanctions guru".
Rachel Lee Brand is an American lawyer,academic,and former government official. She served as the United States Associate Attorney General from May 22,2017,until February 20,2018,when she resigned to take a job as head of global corporate governance at Walmart. Brand was the first woman to serve as Associate Attorney General. She also served as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy in the George W. Bush administration and was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Prior to becoming Associate Attorney General,Brand was an associate professor at Antonin Scalia Law School.
Jeffrey Adam Rosen is an American lawyer who served as the acting United States attorney general from December 2020 to January 2021 and as the United States deputy attorney general from 2019 to 2020. Before joining the Department of Justice,he was a senior partner at the law firm Kirkland &Ellis and was the United States deputy secretary of transportation.
Jeannie Hae Rhee is an American lawyer. Jeannie Rhee has previously served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General during the Obama administration. In 2017,Rhee was appointed by special counsel Robert Mueller to join the 2017 special counsel team to investigate Russia's intervention into the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Carl John Nichols is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Amit Agarwal formerly served as Solicitor General of Florida,an office he held since June 2016. In October 2021,Agarwal joined the law firm of Holland &Knight as a partner.
Kevin Andrew Chambers is an American attorney and former certified public accountant serving as an associate deputy attorney general in the Biden administration. In March 2022,he was appointed to serve as director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement in the United States Department of Justice.
