United States Deputy Attorney General

The **United States deputy attorney general** (**DAG**) is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice.

The deputy attorney general acts as attorney general during the absence of the attorney general. The position was created in 1950.

## List of deputy attorneys general

|#|Image|Name|Term began|Term ended|President(s) served under|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||Peyton Ford|May 24, 1950|1951|rowspan="3"|Harry S. Truman||||||
|2||A. Devitt Vanech|1951|1952||||||||
|3||Ross L. Malone|1952|January 20, 1953||||||||
|4||William P. Rogers|January 20, 1953|October 23, 1957|rowspan="2"|Dwight D. Eisenhower||||||
|5||Lawrence Walsh|December 29, 1957|January 20, 1961||||||||
|6||Byron White|January 20, 1961|April 16, 1962|rowspan="2"|John F. Kennedy||||||
|rowspan="2"|7|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Nicholas Katzenbach|rowspan="2"|April 16, 1962|rowspan="2"|January 28, 1965|||
|rowspan="1"|John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson|||||||||||
|8||Ramsey Clark|January 28, 1965|March 10, 1967|rowspan="2"|Lyndon B. Johnson||||||
|9||Warren Christopher|March 10, 1967|January 20, 1969||||||||
|10||Richard Kleindienst|January 20, 1969|June 12, 1972|rowspan="4"|Richard Nixon||||||
|11||Ralph E. Erickson|June 1972|February 1973||||||||
|12||Joseph Tyree Sneed III|February 1973|July 9, 1973||||||||
|13||William Ruckelshaus|July 9, 1973|October 20, 1973||||||||
|14||Laurence Silberman|January 20, 1974|April 6, 1975|rowspan="1"|Richard Nixon Gerald Ford||||||
|15||Harold R. Tyler Jr.|April 6, 1975|January 20, 1977|rowspan="1"|Gerald Ford||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|<small>Acting</small>|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Dick Thornburgh|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 20, 1977|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|March 12, 1977|rowspan="5"|Jimmy Carter|
|16||Peter F. Flaherty|April 12, 1977|December 9, 1977||||||||
|17||Benjamin Civiletti|May 16, 1978|August 16, 1979||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|<small>Acting</small>|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Charles Ruff|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|August 16, 1979|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|February 27, 1980|||
|18||Charles Byron Renfrew|February 27, 1980|January 19, 1981||||||||
|19||Edward C. Schmults|February 1981|February 3, 1984|rowspan="5"|Ronald Reagan||||||
|20||Carol E. Dinkins|May 23, 1984|April 1985||||||||
|21||D. Lowell Jensen|May 1985|June 25, 1986||||||||
|22||Arnold Burns|July 1986|July 1988||||||||
|23||Harold G. Christensen|July 1988|May 22, 1989||||||||
|24||Donald B. Ayer|November 1989|May 11, 1990|rowspan="3"|George H. W. Bush||||||
|25||William Barr|May 26, 1990|November 26, 1991||||||||
|26||George J. Terwilliger III|November 26, 1991|January 20, 1993||||||||
|27||Philip Heymann|May 28, 1993|March 17, 1994|rowspan="3"|Bill Clinton||||||
|28||Jamie Gorelick|March 17, 1994|May 1997||||||||
|29||Eric Holder|June 13, 1997|January 20, 2001||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|<small>Acting</small>|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Robert Mueller|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 20, 2001|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|May 10, 2001|rowspan="7"|George W. Bush|
|30||Larry Thompson|May 10, 2001|August 31, 2003||||||||
|31||James Comey|November 9, 2003|August 15, 2005||||||||
|<small>Acting</small>||Robert McCallum Jr.|August 15, 2005|March 17, 2006||||||||
|32||Paul McNulty|March 17, 2006|July 26, 2007||||||||
|<small>Acting</small>||Craig S. Morford|July 26, 2007|March 10, 2008||||||||
|33||Mark Filip|March 10, 2008|January 20, 2009||||||||
|34||David W. Ogden|March 12, 2009|February 5, 2010|rowspan="4"|Barack Obama||||||
|<small>Acting</small>||Gary Grindler|February 5, 2010|December 29, 2010||||||||
|35||James M. Cole|December 29, 2010|January 8, 2015||||||||
|rowspan="2"|36|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Sally Yates|rowspan="1" bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 10, 2015|rowspan="1" bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|May 13, 2015|||
|rowspan="1"|May 13, 2015|rowspan="1"|January 30, 2017|rowspan="1"|Barack Obama Donald Trump|||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|<small>Acting</small>|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Dana Boente|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|February 9, 2017|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|April 26, 2017|rowspan="5"|Donald Trump|
|37||Rod Rosenstein|April 26, 2017|May 11, 2019||||||||
|||Ed O'Callaghan|May 13, 2019|May 22, 2019||||||||
|38||Jeffrey A. Rosen|May 22, 2019|December 23, 2020||||||||
|||Richard Donoghue|December 24, 2020|January 20, 2021||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|<small>Acting</small>|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|John P. Carlin|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 20, 2021|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|April 21, 2021|rowspan="2"|Joe Biden|
|39||Lisa Monaco|April 21, 2021|January 20, 2025||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|<small>Acting</small>|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Emil Bove|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 20, 2025|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|March 6, 2025|rowspan="2"|Donald Trump|
|40||Todd Blanche|March 6, 2025|_Incumbent_||||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: United States Deputy Attorney General
- **insignia**: Seal of the United States Department of Justice.svg
- **insigniacaption**: Seal of the Department of Justice
- **image**: DAG DAG Todd Blanche Official Port.jpg
- **incumbent**: Todd Blanche
- **incumbentsince**: March 6, 2025
- **department**: United States Department of Justice
- **style**: Mr. Deputy Attorney General
- **reports to**: United States Attorney General
- **appointer**: The President of the United States, president
- **appointer qualified**: with United States Senate, Senate advice and consent
- **seat**: Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, Department of Justice Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
- **formation**: May 24, 1950
- **first**: Peyton Ford
- **salary**: Executive Schedule#Level II, Executive Schedule, Level II
- **abbreviation**: DAG
DepAG (informal)