Former Assistant Attorneys General

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 F. Sonnett	1945-47	Truman	Clark
Peyton Ford	1947	Truman	Clark
H. Graham Morison	1949-51	Truman	McGrath
Holmes Baldridge	1951-53	Truman	McGrath
Warren E. Burger	1953-56	Eisenhower	Brownell
George Cochran Doub	1956-60	Eisenhower	Rogers
William H. Orrick, Jr.	1961-63	Kennedy	Kennedy
John W. Douglas	1963-66	Kennedy	Kennedy
Harold Barefoot Sanders, Jr.	1966-67	Johnson	Katzenbach
Edwin L. Weisl, Jr.	1967-69	Johnson	Clark
William D. Ruckelshaus	1969-70	Nixon	Mitchell
L. Patrick Gray, III	1970-72	Nixon	Mitchell
Harlington Wood, Jr.	1972-73	Nixon	Kleindienst
Carla A. Hills	1974-75	Nixon	Saxbe
Rex E. Lee	1975-77	Ford	Levi
Barbara Allen Babcock	1977-79	Carter	Bell
Alice Daniel	1979-81	Carter	Civiletti
Paul J. McGrath	1981-85	Reagan	French Smith
Richard K. Willard	1985-88	Reagan	Meese
John R. Bolton	1988-89	Reagan	Meese
Stuart M. Gerson	1989-93	G. H.W. Bush	Thornburgh
Frank W. Hunger	1993-99	Clinton	Reno
David W. Ogden	1999-01	Clinton	Reno
Robert D. McCallum, Jr.	2001-03	G. W. Bush	Ashcroft
Peter D. Keisler	2003-07	G. W. Bush	Ashcroft
Gregory G. Katsas	2008-09	G. W. Bush	Mukasey
Tony West	2009-12	Obama	Holder
Stuart F. Delery	2012-14	Obama	Holder
Joseph H. (Jody) Hunt	2018-20	Trump	Sessions & Barr

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

Updated April 28, 2025