A 27-year veteran of DOJ, Sally rose through the ranks of Assistant United States Attorneys to become U.S. Attorney in Atlanta, Deputy Attorney General and Acting Attorney General. As Deputy Attorney General from 2015 through 2017, Sally was responsible for crafting and implementing initiatives focused on many of DOJ’s priorities, including corporate fraud, cybercrime, gang …
In 2015, The U.S Senate confirmed Sally Yates appointment as Deputy Attorney General of the United States, which is the second highest position in the United States Department of Justice. During her tenure as Deputy Attorney General, she introduced a policy known as ‘Yates memo’, which gives priority to the legal proceedings of corporate crimes.
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After leaving the Justice Department, Yates became a lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center and returned to Atlanta as a partner at the Atlanta-based international law firm King & Spalding, where she had worked 30 years earlier. Yates' practice focuses on investigations.
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Post her graduation, Sally Yates was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 1986. Between 1986 and 1989 she worked with the law firm ‘King & Spalding’ in Atlanta as an associate. Later, in 1989 she was hired for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia as an Assistant U.S Attorney.
Her father was a judge who had served on the Georgia Court of Appeals between 1966 and 1984. She has a sister named Terell Quillian Marshall.
She authored what is famously known as “Yates Memo”; the policy prioritizes the prosecution of executives for corporate crimes. She was the lead prosecutor in the case of Eric Rudolph, a terrorist who carried out a series of anti-abortion and anti-gay bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998.