Associate deputy attorney general

Associate deputy attorney general is a position in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice. The number of positions varies widely depending on the staffing discretion of the deputy attorney general, but in 2017, there were five such positions,^[1] all of whom served as advisors to the deputy attorney general.^[1][2][3] There is also a separate principal associate deputy attorney general, who is the principal advisor to the deputy attorney general, and to whom all associate deputy attorneys general report.^[4] The associate deputy attorney general positions are filled by Senior Executive Service (SES) career attorneys, by SES political appointees, or by non-SES career attorneys serving on detail assignments from elsewhere in the department.^[5][6]

United States Associate Deputy Attorney General
Seal of the Department of Justice
Incumbent Kevin Chambers since February 1, 2021
United States Department of Justice
Style	Associate Deputy Attorney General
Reports to	United States Deputy Attorney General
Seat	Department of Justice Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Formation	1972

The position is not to be confused with the deputy associate attorneys general, who report to the associate attorney general.^[5][7]

List

Nixon administration

• Charles D. Ablard

Ford administration

• Jonathan Chapman Rose (Principal)
• Rudy Giuliani
• Togo D. West Jr.
• James D. Hutchinson

Reagan administration

• Randy Levine (Principal)
• James H. Burnley IV
• Roger Clegg
• Bruce Fein
• Wayne L. Kidwell

George H. W. Bush administration

• Dee Benson
• Peter Ferrara

Clinton administration

• Merrick Garland (Principal)
• Robert S. Litt (Principal)
• Irvin B. Nathan (Principal)
• Edward C. DuMont
• Paul J. Fishman
• Andrew Fois
• Brian Anthony Jackson
• Rory K. Little
• David Margolis
• David W. Ogden
• Catherine M. Russell
• Seth P. Waxman
• Monty Wilkinson

George W. Bush administration

• William W. Mercer (Principal)
• Christopher A. Wray (Principal)
• Ted Cruz
• David S. Kris
• Stuart A. Levey
• Kevin J. O'Connor
• Johnny Sutton
• Karen Tandy
• Patrick B. Murray

Obama administration

• Lisa Monaco (Principal)
• Kathryn Ruemmler (Principal)
• Stuart Goldberg (Principal)^[8]
• Matthew Axelrod (Principal)^[9]
• David O'Neil^[8]
• Armando Omar Bonilla
• Samir Jain^[10]
• Neil MacBride
• Steven Reich
• Carlos Uriarte^[10]
• Donald B. Verrilli Jr.
• Miriam Vogel

Trump administration

• James A. Crowell (Principal)
• Robert K. Hur (Principal)
• Ed O'Callaghan (Principal)
• Seth D. DuCharme (Principal)^[11]
• Richard Donoghue (Principal)
• Antoinette Bacon^[12]
• Adam Braverman
• Zachary Bolitho^[13]
• Steve Cook^[14]
• Erin Creegan
• Richard DiZinno^[15]
• Christopher Grieco^[16]
• Brendan Groves^[17]
• Stacie Harris^[18]
• Jarad Hodes
• Bruce Ohr
• Patrick Hovakimian^[19]
• William Hughes^[19][20]
• Amanda Liskamm^[21]
• Jennifer Mascott
• Michael Murray^[22]
• Sujit Raman^[23]
• Scott Schools
• G. Zachary Terwilliger
• Robyn Thiemann^[24]
• David Wetmore^[25]

Biden administration

• John P. Carlin (Principal)
• Marshall Miller (Principal)^[26]
• David Newman^[27]
• Emily Loeb^[28]
• Kevin Chambers^[29]

References

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