Deputy Attorney General: Edward C. Schmults

Edward C. Schmults was the 19th Deputy Attorney General of the United States.

President Ronald Reagan nominated Mr. Schmults for the Department’s second-ranking post in January 1981 and his nomination was confirmed by the Senate early the following month. He went to serve as Deputy Attorney General until February 1984.

At the time of his nomination, Mr. Schmults was a partner of the New York law firm of White & Case, where his practice focused on corporate and securities law matters.

From October 1975 to January 1977, Mr. Schmults was Deputy Counsel to the President of the United States. As co-chairman of the Domestic Council Review Group on Regulatory Reform, he was responsible at the White House for the development of President Gerald R. Ford’s regulatory reform program.

Mr. Schmults was Under Secretary of the Treasury from July 1974 to October 1975 and General Counsel of the Department of the Treasury from June 1973 to July 1974. He received the Treasury Department’s highest honor, the Alexander Hamilton Award, created in 1955 to recognize outstanding and extraordinary leadership in the work of that Department.

A native of New Jersey, Mr. Schmults received a Bachelor of Science degree from Yale University (1953) and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Harvard Law School (1958).