Deputy Attorney General: Larry D. Thompson

Larry D. Thompson was the 30th Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He served as the Department’s second-ranking official from May 2001 to August 2003.

As Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Thompson chaired the President’s National Security Coordination Council, which was charged with assessing vulnerabilities in the nation’s governmental and private sectors in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. In July 2002, following a series of high-profile corporate scandals that unsettled the U.S. economy, President George W. Bush appointed Deputy Attorney General Thompson as head of the Corporate Fraud Task Force, which would go on to bring over 350 charges and obtain more than 250 convictions against executives and other business professionals.

Prior to becoming Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Thompson was a partner in the Atlanta law firm of King & Spalding. From 1982 to 1986, he served as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, where he directed the Southeastern Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and served on the Attorney General’s Economic Crime Council. In April 2000, he was appointed to chair the Judicial Review Commission on Foreign Asset Control.

Mr. Thompson graduated cum laude from Culver-Stockton College (Canton, Missouri) in 1967. He attained his master’s degree in 1969 from Michigan State University and his law degree in 1974 from the University of Michigan Law School.