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.
Kirkland &Ellis LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in Chicago,Illinois. Founded in 1909,Kirkland &Ellis is the largest law firm in the world by revenue and the seventh-largest by number of attorneys,and was the first law firm in the world to reach US$4 billion in revenue.
Samuel Der-Yeghiayan is a former United States District Court Judge of the Northern District of Illinois. He was appointed in 2003. Der-Yeghiayan is noteworthy as being the first Armenian immigrant U.S. District Court Judge in the United States and served over 40 years of distinguished government service.
Diane Joyce Humetewa is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and was the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona,serving in that position from December 2007 to August 2009. Confirmed in 2014 as the first Native American woman and enrolled tribal member to serve as a federal judge,Humetewa,a Hopi,is one of six Native Americans in history to serve in this position. Humetewa is also a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. Humetewa has served as counsel to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and to the Deputy Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice,as a member of the United States Sentencing Guideline Commission,Native American Advisory Committee,and as an Appellate Court Judge for the Hopi Tribe,of which she is an enrolled member.
Eric Himpton Holder Jr. is an American lawyer who served as the 82nd United States attorney general from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,Holder was the first African American to hold the position of U.S. attorney general.
Rubén Castillo is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In 1994,Castillo was the first person of Latino descent to be named a judge in the Northern District of Illinois,and in 2013 the first to become Chief Judge.
Philip Peter Simon is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
Matthew Glen Olsen is an American attorney who has served as the Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division since 2021. He is the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
Mary L. Smith is an American lawyer and former principal deputy director and acting director of the Indian Health Services from October 2015 to February 2017. Previously she was general counsel for the Illinois Department of Insurance. From 2009 until August 2010,she had been a presidential nominee to be the Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice. However,she was never confirmed by the Senate,and the White House in 2010 decided not to renominate her to the post. In 2023,she was sworn in as president of the American Bar Association.
Sharon Lynn Johnson Coleman is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She was formerly a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court,First District,3rd Division.
Gary Scott Feinerman is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
AndréBirotte Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California and previously served as United States Attorney for the Central District of California. On July 22,2014,the United States Senate unanimously confirmed Birotte to serve as a district judge in Los Angeles after being nominated by President Barack Obama.
Allison Lynn Hartwell Eid is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She previously served as an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.
Mary Elizabeth "Beth" Phillips is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
John Joseph Tharp Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Manish Suresh Shah is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and former assistant United States attorney for the same court.
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.
Steven Charles Seeger is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Martha Maria Pacold is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Tiffany Patrice Cunningham is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
