Gary Grindler serves as the Acting Deputy Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice. He rejoined the Department in 2009 as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division before being appointed in 2010 by the Attorney General to serve as the Acting Deputy Attorney General.

Prior to his return to the Department, Grindler was a partner at King & Spalding LLP in the firm’s Special Matters/Government Investigations Practice Group where he focused on white collar criminal defense, internal corporate investigations, money laundering and search warrant compliance, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, False Claims Act and whistleblower cases, and complex civil litigation.

Grindler has previously served in a number of roles at the Justice Department, including as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General and Counselor to the Attorney General, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division, and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York and the Northern District of Georgia. He also represented the President of the United States in his official capacity when depositions were taken in two Independent Counsel prosecutions arising out of the Whitewater investigation.

Grindler was also a partner in his own litigation firm, Chilivis & Grindler, where he focused on civil litigation and white collar criminal defense. Prior to that he was an associate at Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP in the firm's litigation department.

Grindler has been selected for inclusion in the 2006-2009 editions of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of white collar criminal defense and on the 2008-2009 Washington, D.C., Super Lawyers lists. In 2000, he received the Edmund J. Randolph Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the Department of Justice. He received both his undergraduate and law degrees from Northwestern University.