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See also: United States Attorneys appointed by Donald Trump.
| data-sort-type="text" | Office | data-sort-type="text" | Name | data-sort-type="date" | Took office | data-sort-type="date" | Left office | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Attorney General | Jeff Sessions | February 8, 2017 | November 7, 2018 | Resigned at the request of President Trump. Replaced temporarily with Matthew Whitaker.[22] | ||||
| William Barr | February 14, 2019 | December 23, 2020 | Resigned. President Trump announced Barr's departure in December and the Attorney General subsequently confirmed it.[23] | |||||
Sally Yates | January 20, 2017 | January 30, 2017 | Dismissed by President Trump on January 30, after she instructed the Justice Department not to make legal arguments defending Executive Order 13769. | |||||
Deputy Attorney General | January 10, 2015 | January 30, 2017 | ||||||
General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation | Dana Boente | January 23, 2018 | May 30, 2020 | [24] | ||||
Attorney General | January 30, 2017 | February 9, 2017 | ||||||
Deputy Attorney General | February 9, 2017 | April 25, 2017 | ||||||
Rod Rosenstein | April 26, 2017 | May 11, 2019 | Despite numerous reports of his resignation or firing, he lasted through the release of the Mueller Report and the appointments of AG Barr and DAG Rosen. | |||||
| Assistant Attorney General (Civil Rights Division) | Eric Dreiband | November 1, 2018 | January 8, 2021 | Resignation announced by the Department of Justice on January 7, 2021.[25] The New York Times noted that his resignation did not specifically refer to the events of the prior day.[26] | ||||
Assistant Attorney General (Civil Division) | Jody Hunt | September 4, 2018 | July 3, 2020 | [27] | ||||
Chief of Staff to the Attorney General | February 2017 | September 22, 2017 | ||||||
Matthew Whitaker | September 22, 2017 | November 7, 2018 | [28] | |||||
Attorney General | November 7, 2018 | February 14, 2019 | ||||||
Senior Counselor in the Office of the Associate Attorney General | February 15, 2019 | March 2, 2019 | ||||||
Solicitor General | Noel Francisco | January 23, 2017 | March 10, 2017 | |||||
| September 19, 2017 | July 3, 2020 | [29] | ||||||
| Jeff Wall | March 10, 2017 | September 19, 2017 | ||||||
Associate Attorney General | Rachel Brand | May 22, 2017 | February 20, 2018 | Resigned to take a job as head of global corporate governance at Walmart.[30] | ||||
Jesse Panuccio | February 2017 | May 22, 2017 | ||||||
| February 21, 2018 | May 3, 2019 | |||||||
Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General | February 2017 | May 14, 2019 | ||||||
Assistant Attorney General (Criminal Division) | Brian Benczkowski | July 16, 2018 | July 3, 2020 | [31] | ||||
Deputy Assistant Attorney General (Antitrust Division) | Donald Kempf Jr. | 2017 | 2018 | Resigned over an investigation into his misconduct.[32] | ||||
United States Attorneys | Various | March 10, 2017 | See main article: 2017 dismissal of U.S. attorneys. On March 10, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions requested the resignations of 46 United States Attorneys.[33] Trump declined to accept the resignations of Dana Boente, who was serving as Acting Deputy Attorney General, and Rod Rosenstein, whom Trump had selected to become Deputy Attorney General.[34] [35] [36] Trump also allowed Deirdre M. Daly and Richard S. Hartunian to remain in office for a period of several months until they completed 20 years of service at the Justice Department.[37] | |||||
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York | Preet Bharara | August 13, 2009 | March 11, 2017 | Bharara refused to resign and was fired.[38] [39] | ||||
Geoffrey Berman | January 5, 2018 | June 20, 2020 | On June 19, Barr announced that Berman was stepping down, Craig Carpenito would be acting U.S. Attorney, and Jay Clayton would be nominated as Berman's permanent replacement. Berman countered that he had no intention to resign. He agreed to leave after Barr relented and named Audrey Strauss to be acting U.S. Attorney, preserving the integrity of SDNY.[40] | |||||
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia | Jessie K. Liu | September 24, 2017 | January 31, 2020 | Trump nominated Liu to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, then withdrew the nomination on February 11, 2020.[41] | ||||
Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia | Jonathan Kravis | February 11, 2020 | Kravis and Zelinsky resigned when the Attorney General refused to support their sentencing recommendations for Roger Stone. Two other Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Adam Jed and Mike Marando, withdrew from the case.[42] | |||||
| Aaron Zelinsky | ||||||||
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia | B. J. Pak | October 10, 2017 | January 4, 2021 | Resigned rather than support Trump's false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Trump also considered firing Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and replacing him with Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, who was willing to challenge the election results.[43] | ||||
Director of the Election Crimes Branch | Richard Pilger | March 2010 | November 9, 2020 | Resigned in protest after Attorney General Barr gave an authorization for federal prosecutors to investigate allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, going against longstanding guidance.[44] | ||||
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation | James Comey | September 4, 2013 | May 9, 2017 | See main article: Dismissal of James Comey. Statements from Trump and the White House suggested he had been dismissed to ease the "pressure" on Trump due to the Russia investigation.[45] [46] [47] Later that month he arranged for a friend to tell the press about a memo he had written after a February 14 private meeting with the president. It said Trump had asked him to end the FBI's investigation into Michael Flynn, the former National Security Advisor. His dismissal, the memo, and Comey's subsequent Congressional testimony were interpreted by some commentators as evidence of obstruction of justice and became part of a widening investigation by Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel appointed to probe Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.[48] | ||||
Andrew McCabe | May 9, 2017 | August 2, 2017 | ||||||
Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation | February 1, 2016 | January 29, 2018 | Resigned after being repeatedly taunted by President Trump.[49] [50] He then went on paid leave until his scheduled retirement date of March 18, 2018.[51] On March 16, 2018, Jeff Sessions fired McCabe 26 hours before his scheduled retirement.[52] [53] Sessions said he based his action on reports from the DOJ Inspector General and the FBI's disciplinary office saying that McCabe had made unauthorized releases of information to the media and had "lacked candor" in talking about it. McCabe denied he had ever been dishonest and charged that his firing was politically motivated.[54] [55] [56] | |||||
Assistant Director for Public Affairs for the Federal Bureau of Investigation | Michael Kortan | September 2009 | February 2018 | [57] | ||||
Deputy Assistant Director, FBI Counterintelligence Division | Peter Strzok | August 10, 2018 | Fired for anti-Trump text messages.[58] | |||||
Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons | Mark Inch | September 18, 2017 | May 18, 2018 | |||||
| Hugh Hurwitz | May 2018 | August 19, 2019 | Removed after Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide while in Federal custody. | |||||
Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration | Robert W. Patterson | October 1, 2017 | July 2, 2018 | Retired. |