Sally Yates | |
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In office January 10, 2015 – January 30, 2017 | |
President | Barack Obama Donald Trump |
Preceded by | James M. Cole |
Succeeded by | Rod Rosenstein |
Jan 31, 2017 · President Donald Trump has fired Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates after she expressed doubts over his executive action on immigration and instructed the Justice Department to stop defending it in court. Yates had argued against Trump’s action in a letter released on Monday, stating that she was “not convinced” that the executive order is […]
Jan 30, 2017 · @POTUS has named Dana Boente, US Attorney for the Eastern District of VA as Acting Attorney General. Sally Yates has been relieved. Sally Yates has been relieved. — Sean Spicer (@PressSec ...
Dec 10, 2021 · Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., May 8, 2017. ... The group has for nearly five years been fighting to ...
Jan 31, 2017 · Update: As of 8:16 p.m. Eastern Time Monday, according to Press Secretary Sean Spicer, Yates has been removed from her position as …
Merrick B. GarlandAttorney General Merrick B. Garland was sworn in as the 86th Attorney General of the United States on March 11, 2021. As the nation's chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Garland leads the Justice Department's 115,000 employees, who work across the United States and in more than 50 countries worldwide.Feb 3, 2022
Acting United States Attorney General2017–2017United States Deputy Attorney General2015–2017Sally Quillian Yates/Previous offices
Kelley QuillianSally Quillian Yates / Father
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Comer YatesSally Quillian Yates / SpouseYates's husband, J. Comer Yates, is an executive director of the Atlanta Speech School and was awarded an honorary degree from Oglethorpe University in 2017. In 1994 and 1996, he unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a Democrat. The couple has two children, a daughter, Kelley Malone and a son, James "Quill" Quillian.
Loretta LynchDeputySally YatesPreceded byEric HolderSucceeded byJeff SessionsUnited States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York20 more rows
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At its core, the Yates Memo required that corporations identify all individuals involved in any aspect of alleged misconduct, regardless of their status or seniority, in order for the corporation to receive any credit for its cooperation with the government.Dec 5, 2018
New York, NYEric H. Holder, Jr. / Place of birthEric Holder, in full Eric Himpton Holder, Jr., (born January 21, 1951, New York, New York, U.S.), American lawyer who was the first African American to serve as U.S. attorney general (2009–15).Jan 17, 2022
In 1986, Yates was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia. From 1986 to 1989, Yates was an associate at the law firm King & Spalding in Atlanta, specializing in commercial litigation.
In 1989, Yates was hired as Assistant U.S. Attorney by Bob Barr for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia. Early in her career at the …
Yates was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to John Kelley Quillian (1930–1986), an attorney and judge on the Georgia Court of Appeals between 1966 and 1984, and his wife, Xara "Mickey" DeBeaugrine Quillian (née Terrell; 1931–2012), an interior designer. Her grandmother had been one of the first women admitted to the Georgia Bar; however, she was not hired as an attorney, instead working as a legal secretary for Yates's grandfather.
Upon announcing her decision not to defend the order, Yates was immediately dismissed by the Trump administration via hand-delivered letter, and replaced with Dana Boente, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. After taking office, Boente ordered the Justice Department to enforce the executive order.
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.
Yates delivered a speech as part of the 2020 Democratic National Convention. On September 5, 2020, Yates was announced to be a member of the advisory council of the Biden-Harris Transiti…
In January 2016, Yates received Emory University School of Law's Emory Public Interest Committee (EPIC) Inspiration Award. Following Yates's dismissal as Acting Attorney General, Representative Jackie Speier nominated her for the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, and Georgia State Senator Elena Parent introduced a resolution commending Yates. In April 2017, Yates received the Mary Church Terrell Freedom and Justice Award during the Detroit NAACP's 6…
Holly Hunter plays Yates in the 2020 TV miniseries The Comey Rule.
Yates's husband, J. Comer Yates, is an executive director of the Atlanta Speech School and was awarded an honorary degree from Oglethorpe University in 2017. In 1994 and 1996, he unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a Democrat. The couple has two children, a daughter, Kelley Malone and a son, James "Quill" Quillian.
Yates is a Democrat. At the Department of Justice, she served under both Democratic and Repu…