United States Attorney General

The United States attorney general is the head of the U.S. Department of Justice. The position requires a presidential nomination and subsequent confirmation by the United States Senate.

Current attorney general

The current attorney general is Merrick Garland. President Joe Biden (D) announced he would nominate Garland to the office on January 7, 2021, and the Senate confirmed him on March 10, 2021.

List of U.S. attorneys general

Attorney General	Years of service
Merrick Garland	2021-Present
William Pelham Barr	2019-2020
Jeff Sessions	2017-2018
Loretta Lynch	2015-2017
Eric Holder	2009-2015
Michael B. Mukasey	2007-2009
Alberto R. Gonzales	2005-2007
John David Ashcroft	2001-2005
Janet Reno	1993-2001
William Pelham Barr	1991-1993
Richard Lewis Thornburgh	1988-1991
Edwin Meese, III	1985-1988
William French Smith	1981-1985
Benjamin Richard Civiletti	1979-1981
Griffin Boyette Bell	1977-1979
Edward Hirsch Levi	1975-1977
William Bart Saxbe	1974-1975
Elliot Lee Richardson	1973
Richard Gordon Kleindienst	1972-1973
John Newton Mitchell	1969-1972
William Ramsey Clark	1967-1969
Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach	1965-1966
Robert Francis Kennedy	1961-1964
William Pierce Rogers	1957-1961
Herbert Brownell, Jr.	1953-1957
James Patrick McGranery	1952-1953
James Howard McGrath	1949-1952
Thomas Campbell Clark	1945-1949
Francis Beverly Biddle	1941-1945
Robert Houghwout Jackson	1940-1941
Frank Murphy	1939-1940
Homer Stille Cummings	1933-1939
William Dewitt Mitchell	1929-1933
John Garibaldi Sargent	1925-1929
Harlan Fiske Stone	1924-1925
Harry Micajah Daugherty	1921-1924
Alexander Mitchell Palmer	1919-1921
Thomas Watt Gregory	1914-1919
James Clark McReyonds	1913-1914
George Woodward Wichersham	1909-1913
Charles Joseph Bonaparte	1906-1909
William Henry Moody	1904-1906
Philander Chase Knox	1901-1904
John William Griggs	1898-1901
Joseph McKenna	1897-1898
Judson Harmon	1895-1897
Richard Olney	1893-1895
William Henry Harrison Miller	1889-1893
Augustus Hill Garland	1885-1889
Benjamin Harris Brewster	1881-1885
Isaac Wayne MacVeagh	1881
Charles Devens	1877-1881
Alphonso Taft	1876-1877
Edwards Pierrepont	1875-1876
George Henry Williams	1871-1875
Amos Tappan Akerman	1870-1871
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar	1869-1870
William Maxwell Evarts	1868-1869
Henry Stanbery	1866-1868
James Speed	1864-1866
Edward Bates	1861-1864
Edwin McMasters Stanton	1860-1861
Jeremiah Sullivan Black	1857-1860
Caleb Cushing	1853-1857
John Jordan Crittenden	1850-1853
Reverdy Johnson	1849-1850
Isaac Toucey	1848-1849
Nathan Clifford	1846-1848
John Young Mason	1845-1846
John Nelson	1843-1845
Hugh Swinton Legare	1841-1843
John Jordan Crittenden	1841
Henry Dilworth Gilpin	1840-1841
Felix Grundy	1838-1839
Benjamin Franklin Butler	1833-1838
Roger Brooke Taney	1831-1833
John Macpherson Berrien	1829-1831
William Wirt	1817-1829
Richard Rush	1814-1817
William Pinkney	1811-1814
Caesar Augustus Rodney	1807-1811
John Breckinridge	1805-1806
Levi Lincoln	1801-1805
Charles Lee	1795-1801
William Bradford	1794-1795
Edmund Jennings Randolph	1789-1794

See also

• United States Department of Justice

External links

• U.S. Department of Justice