Jul 06, 2020 · Assistant Attorney General. Term. President. Attorney General. Charles B. Rugg. 1930-33. Hoover. Mitchell. George C. Sweeney. 1933-35. Roosevelt. Cummings. Angus D. MacLean. 1935. Roosevelt. Cummings. James W. Morris. 1935-37. Roosevelt. Cummings. Sam E. Whitaker. 1937-39. Roosevelt. Cummings. Francis M. Shea. 1939-45. Roosevelt. Murphy. John …
Jan 19, 2021 · Assistant Attorneys General. Robert P. Stewart (1919-1921) John W.H. Crim (1921-1923) Earl J. Davis (1924) William J. Donovan (1924-1925) Oscar R. Luhring (1925-1930) Nugent Dodds (1931-1933) Pat Malloy (1933) Joseph B. Keenan (1934-1936)
Bell was a Republican and born in Iowa. In his early adulthood he was a teacher, cattleman, farmer, and steamship purser before becoming a lawyer. Prior to becoming Attorney General, he was the Snohomish City Attorney and Snohomish County Prosecutor. General Bell was responsible for making the position of Assistant Attorney General a full-time job.
Feb 23, 2019 · Richardson served as attorney general (President Nixon) from May 25, 1973 to Oct. 20, 1973. He was born in Boston, MA (July 20, 1920) and attended Harvard University. He served in the Army from 1942 to 1945. He was Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Legislation 1957 to 1959. From 1959 to 1961 he was US Attorney for Massachusetts.
Attorney General | Years of service |
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Merrick Garland | 2021-Present |
Charles Lee | 1795-1801 |
William Bradford | 1794-1795 |
Edmund Jennings Randolph | 1789-1794 |
Sally Yates | |
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Succeeded by | Dana Boente (acting) |
36th United States Deputy Attorney General | |
In office January 10, 2015 – January 30, 2017 | |
President | Barack Obama Donald Trump |
Matthew Whitaker | |
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President | Donald Trump |
Deputy | Rod Rosenstein |
Preceded by | Jeff Sessions |
Succeeded by | William Barr |
The Obama Cabinet | |
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Office | Name |
Secretary of Agriculture | Tom Vilsack |
Secretary of Commerce | Gary Locke |
John Bryson |
Jeffrey A. Rosen | |
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Preceded by | William Barr |
Succeeded by | Monty Wilkinson (acting) |
38th United States Deputy Attorney General | |
In office May 22, 2019 – December 23, 2020 |
General Eastvold ran for Governor in the 1956 election, but was defeated. After this election loss he left politics and went into real estate development, promoting a number of large scale developments on the Washington coast. He passed away in 1998. John J. O'Connell (AG from 1957-1968).
Rob McKenna (AG from 2005-2012). McKenna, a Republican, is an Eagle Scout and was student body president at the University of Washington. He went to law school at the University of Chicago where he was on the law review.
John Dunbar (AG from 1923-1933). Dunbar, a native Washingtonian, was appointed to succeed Thompson. General Dunbar's parents were early settlers in Washington. Dunbar's father was also a distinguished Washington attorney serving as a Washington Supreme Court Justice from 1889 to 1912.
In his early adulthood he was a teacher, cattleman, farmer, and steamship purser before becoming a lawyer. Prior to becoming Attorney General, he was the Snohomish City Attorney and Snohomish County Prosecutor.
The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United Stateson all legal matters. The attorney general is a statutory member of the Cabinet of the United States.
The title "attorney general" is an example of a noun (attorney) followed by a postpositive adjective(general).[8]". General" is a description of the type of attorney, not a title or rank in itself (as it would be in the military).[8]
Levi served as attorney general (President Bush) from Jan. 14, 1975 to Jan. 20, 1977. He was born in Chicago, IL (May 9, 1942) and attended the University of Chicago and Yale University. During WWII, he served in the DOJ Anti-Trust Division. Before being named AG, he was served in various leadership roles at the the Univeristy of Chicago, being named president in 1968. He was also a member of the White House Task Force on Education, 1966 to 1967. Died March 7, 2000.
The US Attorney General (AG) is the head of the US Department of Justice and is the chief law enforcement officer of the US government. These are the Attorney Generals from 1960 to 1980.
First Assistant Attorney General#N#Brenda L. Rinehart oversees the legal operations of the office. She uses skills acquired during her years of experience in both the private and public sectors to manage pressing legal issues and to ensure that operational needs are met.#N#Rinehart previously worked for seven years as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. While in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, she handled civil litigation and bankruptcy matters and assisted with select criminal litigation.#N#She has worked at all levels of government, starting her career with the state during the final administration of Gov. James A. Rhodes. She worked for city and county governments as a department director, staff attorney and in various other positions.#N#Rinehart also served for eight years as chief of staff for then-State Auditor Dave Yost. In that role, she focused on the administrative and legal operations of the office, overseeing the day-to-day work and assisting with implementation of Auditor Yost’s policy initiatives.#N#Rinehart holds a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University and a law degree from Capital University. She has been admitted to practice in Ohio, U.S. District Court, U.S. Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Deputy Attorney General for Major Litigation#N#As Deputy Attorney General for Major Litigation, Jonathan Blanton works directly with the Ohio Solicitor General as well as the Antitrust, Constitutional Offices, Consumer Protection, and Charitable Law sections of the Attorney General’s Office.#N#Blanton manages some of the office’s highest-profile civil matters, including ongoing litigation against a number of opioid manufacturers and pharmaceutical distributors. He has served as a subject-matter expert and trainer for the National Association of Attorneys General on various topics, including tactics for maximizing the effectiveness of prescription drug monitoring programs, regulating medical professionals, and developing and litigating claims against pharmaceutical supply-chain participants.#N#Before joining Attorney General Yost’s administration, Blanton served as chief of the office’s Consumer Protection Section for more than four years. A litigator at heart, he has extensive experience in investigating and prosecuting felony criminal cases, including 10 years as the Jackson County prosecutor.#N#Blanton is a graduate of Ohio University and the University of Kentucky College of Law.
During that time, she also served as a special prosecutor in numerous criminal cases in counties throughout the state.#N#Earlier in her career, O’Brien served as an assistant attorney general in the Attorney General’s Office and as an assistant prosecutor in the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office . Prior to those roles, she worked as a staff attorney for the clinical programs within the Ohio State University College of Law, for the Neighborhood Legal Assistance Program and for Advocates for Basic Legal Equality.#N#In 2016, O’Brien was recognized as Ohio’s Outstanding Prosecuting Attorney for her dedication to justice. She has been an active member of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorney’s Association for nearly a decade, serving as president in 2019, and has given presentations on a wide range of prosecutorial matters and other legal topics.#N#O’Brien has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Toledo. She is licensed to practice in Ohio, South Carolina, the Northern and Southern District Courts of Ohio, the District Court of South Carolina, and the 4th and 6th circuits of the U.S. Court of Appeals.#N#O’Brien and her husband, Bill, live in Delaware County.
Deputy Attorney General#N#Formerly a prosecutor in the Health Care Fraud Unit of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, Cynthia Dungey has rejoined the office as the deputy attorney general responsible for managing the Civil Rights, Labor, PUCO, Taxation, Transportation and Workers’ Compensation sections.#N#Dungey came to the Attorney General’s Office in 2019 from the Ohio Department of Youth Services, where, as deputy director of Community Engagement and Reentry, she planned for the successful return of youths to their homes and communities.#N#Prior to that, she served as director of the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services for five years and as the federal designee responsible for supervising the state’s public assistance, workforce development, unemployment insurance, child and adult protective services, adoption, child care, and child support programs.#N#She previously worked for ODJFS as the chief of staff of Medicaid, managing daily operations and, with a workforce of 500-plus, maintaining 70,000 active providers and issuing multimillion-dollar payments weekly as reimbursement for services to 1.5 million people.#N#Dungey began her first stint with the Attorney General’s Office in 1996 in the Crime Victims Section, then worked for five years in the Health Care Fraud Section.#N#In all, Dungey has more than 20 years of experience in administering federally regulated programs, developing and implementing state laws and administrative rules; working with government officials, health care providers and stakeholders to improve delivery systems; and identifying millions in inefficiencies, fraud, waste and abuse in health care, public assistance and other government programs.#N#Dungey has a bachelor’s degree in political science and sociology from DePauw University, a law degree from the Ohio Northern University College of Law, and an honorary doctorate of community leadership from Franklin University.
Carrie Bartunek, director of external affairs and senior policy adviser for Attorney General Dave Yost, manages the office’s external relations and outreach efforts, overseeing its regional liaisons across the state.
Shawn Busken, director of outside counsel for Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, is responsible for the engagement, retention and oversight of private sector attorneys appointed to represent state entities (agencies, colleges, universities, retirement systems, boards and commissions) and to work on securities cases and all other contingency cases.
The Office of the Assistant Attorney General (OAAG) is responsible for the overall management and oversight of OJP. This includes setting policy; ensuring that OJP policies and programs reflect the priorities of the President, the Attorney General, and the Congress; and promoting coordination among the OJP program offices.
Maureen earned a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in judicial administration from American University in Washington, D.C., in 1990.