Merrick Brian Garland is an American lawyer and jurist who served as the 86th United States attorney general from 2021 to 2025. He previously served as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 2021. In 2016,President Barack Obama nominated Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court,but the U.S. Senate refused to hold a vote to confirm him.
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia is a federal district court in Washington,D.C. Along with the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the High Court of American Samoa,it also sometimes handles federal issues that arise in the territory of American Samoa,which has no local federal court or territorial court.
Andrew Fois is an attorney who served as the chair of the Administrative Conference of the United States from 2022 to 2025. He served as the deputy attorney general for public safety in the Office of the Attorney General in Washington,D.C. from April 9,2012,to March 2015. He was awarded the Edmund Randolph Award,the Justice Department's highest honor for distinguished service.
Matthew Glen Olsen is an American attorney who had served as the Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division. He is the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
Florence Yu Pan is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 2021 to 2022 and a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 2009 to 2021.
Channing Durward Phillips is an attorney who served as the acting United States attorney for the District of Columbia from March to November 2021. He previously served in the position from October 2015 to September 2017,under President Barack Obama.
John Charles Demers is an Italian-born American lawyer who served as United States Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division (NSD) from 2018 to 2021. Following the resignation of Jeffrey A. Rosen,Demers also served as acting United States Attorney General for a few hours on January 20,2021 until President Joe Biden signed an executive order naming Monty Wilkinson as acting United States Attorney General later that day.
Stacey Angela Dixon is an American mechanical engineer and intelligence official and Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence in the Biden Administration since August 4,2021. According to Politico,she was selected to serve as acting Director of National Intelligence succeeding Avril Haines,after President Trump was sworn in during his second inauguration on January 20,2025.
Veronica Sophia Rossman is a Russian-born American lawyer serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Nicholas William Brown is an American lawyer serving as the 19th attorney general of Washington since 2025. He served as United States attorney for the Western District of Washington from October 2021 to June 21,2023,and was elected the Attorney General for Washington in 2024. Brown is the first African American to serve as Attorney General of Washington.
Loren Linn AliKhan is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2023 as a United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She previously served as a judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals from 2022 to 2023 and the solicitor general of the District of Columbia from 2018 to 2022.
Mark Allen Totten is an American lawyer who served as the United States attorney for the Western District of Michigan between May 2022 and January 2025.
President Joe Biden began his presidency with fewer vacancies to fill than his predecessor. He pledged to nominate people with diverse backgrounds and professional experience;further he pledged to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Phillip Allen Talbert is an American lawyer who served as the United States attorney for the Eastern District of California from 2021 to 2025.
Ana Cecilia Reyes is an Uruguayan-born American lawyer who has served as United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia since 2023. She was nominated to the position by President Joe Biden;and is both the first Latina and the first openly LGBT person to serve as a district court judge in Washington,D.C.
Brandon Scott Long is an American lawyer who is serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Margaret Garnett is an American lawyer from New York who is serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
