Deputy Attorney General: Rod J. Rosenstein

Rod J. Rosenstein was the 37th Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He served as the Department’s second-ranking official from April 2017 to May 2019.

Prior to his appointment as Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Rosenstein served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland from 2005 to 2017. During his tenure as U.S. Attorney, he litigated cases in the U.S. District Court and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He also served on the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force and on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee.

From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Rosenstein was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Department’s Tax Division, in which role he supervised the division’s criminal sections and coordinated the tax enforcement activities of the division, the U.S. Attorney’s Offices, and the Internal Revenue Service.

In 1997, Mr. Rosenstein was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Maryland. In the years preceding that appointment, he served as Associate Independent Counsel (1995–1997), Special Assistant to the Criminal Division’s Assistant Attorney General (1994–1995), and Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General (1993–1994). He joined the Department through the Attorney General’s Honors Program in 1990.

Mr. Rosenstein graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics in 1986 and earned his J.D. cum laude in 1989 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of Harvard Law Review.