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Former Assistant Attorneys General

 

Assistant Attorney GeneralTermPresidentAttorney General
Charles B. Rugg1930-33HooverMitchell
George C. Sweeney1933-35RooseveltCummings
Angus D. MacLean1935RooseveltCummings
James W. Morris1935-37RooseveltCummings
Sam E. Whitaker1937-39RooseveltCummings
Francis M. Shea1939-45RooseveltMurphy
John F. Sonnett1945-47TrumanClark
Peyton Ford1947TrumanClark
H. Graham Morison1949-51TrumanMcGrath
Holmes Baldridge1951-53TrumanMcGrath
Warren E. Burger1953-56EisenhowerBrownell
George Cochran Doub1956-60EisenhowerRogers
William H. Orrick, Jr.1961-63KennedyKennedy
John W. Douglas1963-66KennedyKennedy
Harold Barefoot Sanders, Jr.1966-67JohnsonKatzenbach
Edwin L. Weisl, Jr.1967-69JohnsonClark
William D. Ruckelshaus1969-70NixonMitchell
L. Patrick Gray, III1970-72NixonMitchell
Harlington Wood, Jr.1972-73NixonKleindienst
Carla A. Hills1974-75NixonSaxbe
Rex E. Lee1975-77FordLevi
Barbara Allen Babcock1977-79CarterBell
Alice Daniel1979-81CarterCiviletti
Paul J. McGrath1981-85ReaganFrench Smith
Richard K. Willard1985-88ReaganMeese
John R. Bolton1988-89ReaganMeese
Stuart M. Gerson1989-93G. H.W. BushThornburgh
Frank W. Hunger1993-99ClintonReno
David W. Ogden1999-01ClintonReno
Robert D. McCallum, Jr.2001-03G. W. BushAshcroft
Peter D. Keisler2003-07G. W. BushAshcroft
Gregory G. Katsas2008-09G. W. BushMukasey
Tony West2009-12ObamaHolder
Stuart F. Delery2012-14ObamaHolder
Joseph H. (Jody) Hunt2018-20TrumpSessions & Barr

Note: On February 13, 1953, Attorney General Brownell changed the name of the Claims Division to the Civil Division.

Updated April 28, 2025