The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) 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.
Fred Fisher Fielding is an American lawyer. He held the office of White House Counsel for US Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush in addition to serving as an associate and deputy White House counsel for Richard Nixon under John Dean. Fielding was also of counsel to the presidential transition of Donald Trump and a member of the 9/11 Commission. An alumnus of Gettysburg College,he is the namesake of that school's Fielding Center for Presidential Leadership Study.
Eugene Scalia is an American lawyer who served as the 28th United States Secretary of Labor during the final 16 months of the Trump administration from 2019 to 2021. Scalia previously served as the United States Solicitor of Labor under President George W. Bush. He is a son of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.
Keith Gottfried is a strategic advisor to public companies and their board of directors in the areas of shareholder activism preparedness and defense. Over the course of a career that spans more than 30 years,Gottfried has advised numerous public companies and their boards of directors on shareholder activism preparedness and defense,including in connection with high-profile proxy contests,special meeting demands,consent solicitations,and withhold vote/vote no campaigns,as well as unsolicited takeover offers and negotiated and contested M&A situations. Earlier in his career,Gottfried served as a senior official in the administration of President George W. Bush and was notably nominated by President Bush on July 29,2005,and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 7,2005,to serve as the 19th General Counsel for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Patrick F. Philbin is an American lawyer who served as Deputy Counsel to the President and Deputy Assistant to the President in the Office of White House Counsel in the Donald J. Trump administration. He previously served in the Department of Justice during the George W. Bush administration.
Glenn Alan Fine is the former principal deputy Inspector General of the Department of Defense and former Acting IG of the Department of Defense. Fine previously served as the Inspector General of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) from 2000 until January 2011. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 15,2000. Prior to his appointment as the DOJ Inspector General,Fine served as Special Counsel to the DOJ Inspector General from January 1995 until 1996,when he was made Director of the OIG's Special Investigations and Review Unit.
Todd Sunhwae Kim is an American attorney serving as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division. He earlier served as the first solicitor general of the District of Columbia for nearly 12 years. He was twice nominated by President Barack Obama for the District of Columbia Court of Appeals,but the Senate held no hearings on his nominations,which expired without action.
Bradford P. Campbell was the Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security of the United States Department of Labor (DOL),the official in charge of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA). Mr. Campbell was nominated by President George W. Bush as Assistant Secretary on May 3,2007,and was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on August 3,2007. He held the position until January 20,2009. Prior to his confirmation as Assistant Secretary,Mr. Campbell had served as Acting Assistant Secretary since October 30,2006 and as EBSA's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy since March 5,2004.
Christopher P. Lu is a Chinese American political advisor who serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform. He is also an alternative representative to the United Nations General Assembly during his tenure as Representative for Management and Reform. In the Obama administration,Lu served as the United States Deputy Secretary of Labor from 2014 to 2017,the White House Cabinet Secretary and Assistant to the President from 2009 to 2013,and the co-chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Lu graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and from Harvard Law School,where he was a classmate of Obama's.
Barack Obama assumed office as president of the United States on January 20,2009,and his term ended on January 20,2017. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
Edward Charles Hugler is an American lawyer and former government official who served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations in the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management at the United States Department of Labor from April 2000 until March 2018. He served as Acting Secretary of Labor from February 2–24,2009,when Hilda Solis's nomination by President Barack Obama became bogged down during Senate confirmation hearings. He stepped down from the position when Solis was confirmed and sworn in as Secretary of Labor. Ed Hugler also served as Acting Secretary of Labor from January 20,2017,to April 28,2017,when Alexander Acosta was confirmed and sworn into office.
Mark Robert Filip is an American lawyer specializing in class action and white collar criminal and regulatory defense. Formerly a partner at Skadden,Arps,he currently practices in the Washington,D.C. office of Kirkland and Ellis. From 2004 until 2008,Filip served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. As the George W. Bush administration ended,Filip served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States,and as the Barack Obama administration began he briefly served as acting attorney general.
M. Patricia Smith was the Solicitor of the United States Department of Labor,the department's chief law interpreter-enforcer and third-ranking official from 2009 to 2017. She was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the Solicitor of Labor on April 20,2009. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 4,2010,assumed her duties on March 1,2010,had her swearing-in ceremony on April 23,2010,and remained in office until January 19,2017. As Solicitor of Labor,Smith oversaw over 450 attorneys across the country and more than 180 Federal labor laws and implementing regulations that cover about 125 million workers.
Ian Heath Gershengorn is an American lawyer and former acting Solicitor General of the United States under President Barack Obama.
Joe Main is an American government official who formerly served as the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health and head of the United States Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration. He was nominated to serve the position by Barack Obama and took office after being confirmed by the United States Senate on October 21,2009.
Kathleen Mary Williams is United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. She previously served as the Federal Public Defender for the Southern District of Florida.
Katherine Mary Polk Failla is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
David Jeremiah Barron is an American lawyer who serves as the Chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and former S. William Green Professor of Public Law at Harvard Law School. He previously served as the Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of Justice.
Bryan L. Jarrett is an American attorney and former government official. He served as the Acting and Deputy Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor from October 2017 to January 2019. Prior to joining the Wage and Hour Division,Jarrett was a labor and employment attorney at Morgan,Lewis &Bockius and Jones Day. He also clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Jarrett graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Brigham Young University and graduated with Pro Bono Distinction and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Brian Fletcher is an American lawyer who serves as the Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. He served as Acting Solicitor General from August 11,2021,until Elizabeth Prelogar's confirmation on October 21,2021.
