List of Department of Justice appointments by Donald Trump

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Appointments (first administration)

See also: List of United States attorneys appointed by Donald Trump

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	left office
Attorney General	William Barr [1]	February 14, 2019 (Confirmed February 14, 2019, 54–45) [2]	December 23, 2020
Deputy Attorney General	Jeffrey A. Rosen	May 22, 2019 (Confirmed May 16, 2019, 52–45) [3]	January 20, 2021
Associate Attorney General	Claire McCusker Murray	May 14, 2019	January 20, 2021
Solicitor General	Jeff Wall	July 3, 2020	January 20, 2021
Assistant Attorney General (Antitrust Division)	Makan Delrahim [4]	September 28, 2017 (Confirmed September 27, 2017, 73–21) [5]	January 20, 2021
Assistant Attorney General (Civil Division)	Ethan P. Davis	July 4, 2020	September 11, 2020
Assistant Attorney General (Civil Rights)	Eric Dreiband [6]	October 12, 2018 (Confirmed October 11, 2018, 50–47) [7]	January 8, 2021
Assistant Attorney General (Criminal Division)	Brian Rabbitt	July 3, 2020	December 24, 2020
Assistant Attorney General (Environment and Natural Resources Division)	Jeffrey Clark [8]	November 1, 2018 (Confirmed October 11, 2018, 52–45) [9]	January 21, 2021
Assistant Attorney General (National Security Division)	John Demers [10]	February 22, 2018 (Confirmed February 15, 2018, voice vote)	January 20, 2021
Assistant Attorney General (Tax Division)
Assistant Attorney General (Office of Legal Counsel)	Steven Engel [11]	November 13, 2017 (Confirmed November 7, 2017, 51–47) [12]	January 20, 2021
Assistant Attorney General (Office of Legal Policy)	Beth Ann Williams	August 21, 2017 (Confirmed August 3, 2017, voice vote)	December 11, 2020
Assistant Attorney General (Office of Legislative Affairs)	Stephen Boyd	September 5, 2017 (Confirmed August 3, 2017, voice vote)	January 20, 2021
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives	Regina Lombardo	May 1, 2019
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation	Christopher A. Wray [13]	August 2, 2017 (Confirmed August 1, 2017, 92–5) [14]
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Prison Industries	Deline R. Reardon [15]	March 5, 2018
Office of Justice Programs
Assistant Attorney General (Office of Justice Programs)	Vacant
Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance	Jon Adler [16]	December 11, 2017 (Appointed September 15, 2017)
	Jeffrey H. Anderson	November 2017
Director of the National Institute of Justice	David B. Muhlhausen [17] [18]	August 22, 2017 (Appointed July 11, 2017)
Director of the Office for Victims of Crime	Darlene Hutchinson Biehl [19]	August 14, 2017 (Appointed July 1, 2017)
Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention	Caren Harp [20]	January 19, 2018 (Appointed December 18, 2017)
Director of the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking	Laura Rogers	January 4, 2018 (Appointed October 5, 2017)
Office on Violence Against Women
Director of the Office of Violence Against Women	Laura Rogers	2019
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
Member of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission	Patrick Hovakimian [21]	June 4, 2018 (Confirmed May 10, 2018, voice vote)
United States Parole Commission
Commissioner of the United States Parole Commission	Vacant
	Vacant
	Vacant
	Vacant
United States Marshals Service
Director of the United States Marshals Service	Donald W. Washington	March 29, 2019
Director of Community Relations Service	Gerri Ratliff	June 15, 2018

Previous officeholders (first administration)

Office	Name	Took office	Left office	Notes
Attorney General	Jeff Sessions	February 8, 2017	November 7, 2018	Resigned at the request of President Trump. Replaced temporarily with Matthew Whitaker. [22]
	William Barr	February 14, 2019	December 23, 2020	Resigned. President Trump announced Barr's departure in December and the Attorney General subsequently confirmed it. [23]
	Sally Yates	January 20, 2017	January 30, 2017	Dismissed by President Trump on January 30, after she instructed the Justice Department not to make legal arguments defending Executive Order 13769.
Deputy Attorney General		January 10, 2015	January 30, 2017
General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation	Dana Boente	January 23, 2018	May 30, 2020	[24]
Attorney General		January 30, 2017	February 9, 2017
Deputy Attorney General		February 9, 2017	April 25, 2017
	Rod Rosenstein	April 26, 2017	May 11, 2019	Despite numerous reports of his resignation or firing, he lasted through the release of the Mueller Report and the appointments of AG Barr and DAG Rosen.
Assistant Attorney General (Civil Rights Division)	Eric Dreiband	November 1, 2018	January 8, 2021	Resignation announced by the Department of Justice on January 7, 2021. [25] The New York Times noted that his resignation did not specifically refer to the events of the prior day. [26]
Assistant Attorney General (Civil Division)	Jody Hunt	September 4, 2018	July 3, 2020	[27]
Chief of Staff to the Attorney General		February 2017	September 22, 2017
	Matthew Whitaker	September 22, 2017	November 7, 2018	[28]
Attorney General		November 7, 2018	February 14, 2019
Senior Counselor in the Office of the Associate Attorney General		February 15, 2019	March 2, 2019
Solicitor General	Noel Francisco	January 23, 2017	March 10, 2017
		September 19, 2017	July 3, 2020	[29]
	Jeff Wall	March 10, 2017	September 19, 2017
Associate Attorney General	Rachel Brand	May 22, 2017	February 20, 2018	Resigned to take a job as head of global corporate governance at Walmart. [30]
	Jesse Panuccio	February 2017	May 22, 2017
		February 21, 2018	May 3, 2019
Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General		February 2017	May 14, 2019
Assistant Attorney General (Criminal Division)	Brian Benczkowski	July 16, 2018	July 3, 2020	[31]
Deputy Assistant Attorney General (Antitrust Division)	Donald Kempf Jr.	2017	2018	Resigned over an investigation into his misconduct. [32]
United States Attorneys		Various	March 10, 2017	Main article: 2017 dismissal of U.S. attorneys On March 10, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions requested the resignations of 46 United States Attorneys. [33] Trump declined to accept the resignations of Dana Boente, who was serving as Acting Deputy Attorney General, and Rod Rosenstein, whom Trump had selected to become Deputy Attorney General. [34] [35] [36] Trump also allowed Deirdre M. Daly and Richard S. Hartunian to remain in office for a period of several months until they completed 20 years of service at the Justice Department. [37]
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York	Preet Bharara	August 13, 2009	March 11, 2017	Bharara refused to resign and was fired. [38] [39]
	Geoffrey Berman	January 5, 2018	June 20, 2020	On June 19, Barr announced that Berman was stepping down, Craig Carpenito would be acting U.S. Attorney, and Jay Clayton would be nominated as Berman's permanent replacement. Berman countered that he had no intention to resign. He agreed to leave after Barr relented and named Audrey Strauss to be acting U.S. Attorney, preserving the integrity of SDNY. [40]
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia	Jessie K. Liu	September 24, 2017	January 31, 2020	Trump nominated Liu to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, then withdrew the nomination on February 11, 2020. [41]
Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia	Jonathan Kravis		February 11, 2020	Kravis and Zelinsky resigned when the Attorney General refused to support their sentencing recommendations for Roger Stone. Two other Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Adam Jed and Mike Marando, withdrew from the case. [42]
	Aaron Zelinsky
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia	B. J. Pak	October 10, 2017	January 4, 2021	Resigned rather than support Trump's false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Trump also considered firing Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and replacing him with Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, who was willing to challenge the election results. [43]
Director of the Election Crimes Branch	Richard Pilger	March 2010	November 9, 2020	Resigned in protest after Attorney General Barr gave an authorization for federal prosecutors to investigate allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, going against longstanding guidance. [44]
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation	James Comey	September 4, 2013	May 9, 2017	Main article: Dismissal of James Comey Statements from Trump and the White House suggested he had been dismissed to ease the "pressure" on Trump due to the Russia investigation. [45] [46] [47] Later that month he arranged for a friend to tell the press about a memo he had written after a February 14 private meeting with the president. It said Trump had asked him to end the FBI's investigation into Michael Flynn, the former National Security Advisor. His dismissal, the memo, and Comey's subsequent Congressional testimony were interpreted by some commentators as evidence of obstruction of justice and became part of a widening investigation by Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel appointed to probe Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. [48]
	Andrew McCabe	May 9, 2017	August 2, 2017
Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation		February 1, 2016	January 29, 2018	Resigned after being repeatedly taunted by President Trump. [49] [50] He then went on paid leave until his scheduled retirement date of March 18, 2018. [51] On March 16, 2018, Jeff Sessions fired McCabe 26 hours before his scheduled retirement. [52] [53] Sessions said he based his action on reports from the DOJ Inspector General and the FBI's disciplinary office saying that McCabe had made unauthorized releases of information to the media and had "lacked candor" in talking about it. McCabe denied he had ever been dishonest and charged that his firing was politically motivated. [54] [55] [56]
Assistant Director for Public Affairs for the Federal Bureau of Investigation	Michael Kortan	September 2009	February 2018	[57]
Deputy Assistant Director, FBI Counterintelligence Division	Peter Strzok		August 10, 2018	Fired for anti-Trump text messages. [58]
Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons	Mark Inch	September 18, 2017	May 18, 2018
	Hugh Hurwitz	May 2018	August 19, 2019	Removed after Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide while in Federal custody.
Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration	Robert W. Patterson	October 1, 2017	July 2, 2018	Retired.

Appointments (second administration)

See also: List of United States attorneys appointed by Donald Trump

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Attorney General	Pam Bondi [59]	February 5, 2025 (Confirmed February 4, 2025, 54–46) [60]
	James McHenry (acting)	January 20, 2025	February 5, 2025
Deputy Attorney General	Todd Blanche [61]	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	Emil Bove (acting)	January 20, 2025
Solicitor General	D. John Sauer [62]	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
Assistant Attorney General (Antitrust Division)	Gail Slater [63]
Assistant Attorney General (Civil Rights Division)	Harmeet Dhillon
Assistant Attorney General (Office of Legal Policy)	Aaron Reitz [64]
Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General	Emil Bove [65]	January 20, 2025
Chief of Staff to the Attorney General	Chad Mizelle [64]
Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General (Civil Rights Division)	Leo Terrell
Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration	To be announced
	Derek S. Maltz (acting)	January 20, 2025
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation	Kash Patel [66]	February 21, 2025 (Confirmed February 20, 2025, 51-49) [67]
	Brian Driscoll (acting)	January 20, 2025	February 21, 2025
United States Marshals Service
Director of the United States Marshals Service	Gadyaces Serralta	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	Mark Pitella (acting)	January 20, 2025

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