"asked to stay on and be Acting Attorney General until the confirmation of the new Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who had been nominated for the office in November 2016 by then-President-elect Donald Trump. (1) (3) As of , there are eleven, living former US Attorneys General, the oldest being Ramsey Clark (served 1967–1969, born 1927). The most recent Attorney General to die was Janet Reno on November 7, 2016 (served 1993–2001, born 1938) U.S.C. Title 28, §508 establishes the first two positions in the line of succession, while allowing the Attorney General to designate other high-ranking officers of the Department"
"Janet Reno Janet Wood Reno (July 21, 1938 – November 7, 2016) was an American lawyer who served as the Attorney General of the United States from 1993 until 2001. President Bill Clinton nominated Reno on February 11, 1993, and the Senate confirmed her the following month. She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General and the second-longest serving Attorney General in U.S. history, after William Wirt. Reno was born and raised in Miami, Florida. After leaving to attend Cornell University and Harvard Law School, she returned to Miami where she started her career at private law firms."
"Annette Abbott Adams Annette Abbott Adams (12 March 1877 – 26 October 1956) was an American lawyer and judge. She was the first woman to be the Assistant Attorney General in the United States. Born Annette Grace Abbot in Prattville, California, Adams was educated at the Chico State Normal School and the University of California, Berkeley, where she obtained her undergraduate degree in 1904, and her law degree in 1912. Before beginning her legal career, she taught grammar school and was one of the first female school principals in California, at Modoc County High School, in Alturas. In 1912, she"
"they lived apart, they never divorced. Annette Abbott Adams Annette Abbott Adams (12 March 1877 – 26 October 1956) was an American lawyer and judge. She was the first woman to be the Assistant Attorney General in the United States. Born Annette Grace Abbot in Prattville, California, Adams was educated at the Chico State Normal School and the University of California, Berkeley, where she obtained her undergraduate degree in 1904, and her law degree in 1912. Before beginning her legal career, she taught grammar school and was one of the first female school principals in California, at Modoc County High"
"Arlene Violet Arlene Violet (born 1943) was a religious sister in the Sisters of Mercy and Attorney General of Rhode Island 1985–1987. She was the first female Attorney General elected in the United States. Arlene Violet was born into a middle class Republican–voting family in Providence, Rhode Island. After attending Providence College, she entered Sisters of Mercy convent in 1961, taking her final vows in 1969. Violet said she joined the convent because ""I wanted to do something with my life and try to make a difference, and I saw nuns as the people who could make that difference."" Violet"
"Arlene Violet Arlene Violet (born 1943) was a religious sister in the Sisters of Mercy and Attorney General of Rhode Island 1985–1987. She was the first female Attorney General elected in the United States. Arlene Violet was born into a middle class Republican–voting family in Providence, Rhode Island. After attending Providence College, she entered Sisters of Mercy convent in 1961, taking her final vows in 1969. Violet said she joined the convent because ""I wanted to do something with my life and try to make a difference, and I saw nuns as the people who could make that difference."" Violet"
"the job but had also considered multiple male candidates. Clinton said he had discounted Reno early in his search because she did not have experience in the Justice Department or federal law, but ultimately he came to understand that she had experience with a variety of criminal law issues from her role as State Attorney. On March 11, 1993, Senate confirmed Reno by a vote of 98 to 0. She was sworn in the next day, becoming the first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney General. As Attorney General, Reno oversaw the Justice Department and its 95,000 employees. Reno remained"
"Kathleen Kane Kathleen Granahan Kane (born Kathleen Margaret Granahan; June 14, 1966) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 48th Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 2013 until her resignation in 2016. She was the first female and also the first Democrat ever elected to the position (though both women and Democrats had held the office before it became elective in 1980). In August 2015, Kane was charged with multiple offenses related to her position as attorney general, including a felony perjury charge, and an array of misdemeanors that included official oppression, obstruction, and related conspiracy charges. In"
"Letitia James Letitia A. ""Tish"" James (born October 18, 1958) is an American lawyer, activist, and politician who is the Attorney General-elect of New York. She is the first African-American and the first woman to be elected to that position. James is the New York City Public Advocate and first black woman to hold citywide office. She previously served for a decade as a member of the New York City Council. She represented the 35th Council District, which includes the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, parts of Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. James chaired the Economic Development"
"Jewel Lafontant Jewel Stradford Lafontant-Mankarious (April 28, 1922 – May 31, 1997) was the first female deputy solicitor general of the United States, an official in the administration of President George H. W. Bush, and an attorney in Chicago. She also was considered by President Richard Nixon as a possible nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States. Born in Chicago as Jewel Carter Stradford, she was the daughter of noted attorney and co-founder of the National Bar Association, C. Francis Stradford, and Aida Arabella Stradford. She was a descendant of the 19th century American artisan, Scipio Vaughan and"
"the Attorney General, in the Public Solicitor’s Office, the Ombudsman Office and as Public Prosecutor. Heather Lini-Leo Matas Heather Lini-Leo Matas (died 2016) was a lawyer from Vanuatu. She was the country's first indigenous female lawyer. Lini-Leo was born and raised on Pentecost Island, the eighth of ten children. She attended primary school at Nazareth on North Pentecost and high school at the British Secondary School (present-day Malapoa College). Lini-Leo studied law at the University of Papua New Guinea, at the Victorian Barristers Association in Australia and in the United Kingdom. Lini-Leo was principal legal officer at the National Provident"
"confirmed by the Senate by a 56–43 vote, making her the second African-American, the second woman and the first African-American woman to be confirmed for the position. She was sworn in as Attorney General on April 27, 2015. Her tenure ended on January 20, 2017, when Donald Trump was sworn in as President of the United States. Lynch was born on May 21, 1959, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her mother was a school librarian and her father a Baptist minister. As a child, she spent hours with her father, watching court proceedings in the courthouse of Durham, North Carolina. Her"
"Rachel Brand Rachel Lee Brand (born May 1, 1973) is an American lawyer, academic, and former government official. She served as the United States Associate Attorney General from May 22, 2017, until February 20, 2018, when she resigned to take a job as head of global corporate governance at Walmart. Brand was the first woman to serve as Associate Attorney General. She also served as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy in the George W. Bush administration and was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Prior to becoming"
"Deborah Poritz Deborah Tobias Poritz (born October 26, 1936) is an American jurist. She was the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1996 to 2006, and was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1994 to 1996, in both cases becoming the first woman to serve in that position. Poritz was born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from James Madison High School in 1954 and Brooklyn College in 1958. She became a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in English and American Literature at Columbia University. Poritz became an English teacher at Ursinus College. After graduating from the University"
"Riddle was counsel to Attorney General Joseph I. Lieberman. In 1986 Lieberman appointed Riddle Deputy Attorney General. On December 22, 1988, Governor William O'Neill announced that he would appoint Nardi Riddle as Attorney General to fill the remainder of the term to which Lieberman had been elected in 1986; Lieberman resigned following his election to the United States Senate. She was sworn in on January 3, 1989, and served until January 9, 1991. During her tenure Nardi Riddle became the first female Attorney General to argue in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. She later served as"
"General from January to June 2001, making her the first woman to act as Solicitor General. After working in the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York for several years, in 2007 she was appointed Solicitor General of the State of New York, a position she held under two state Attorneys General. She has argued twenty cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and many cases before the federal and state appellate courts. She became Acting Attorney General on May 8, 2018, following the resignation of Eric Schneiderman. The State Legislature picked Underwood as the replacement to fill the remainder of Schneiderman's"
"Pamela Carter Pamela Lynn Carter (born Pamela Lynn Fanning; August 20, 1949) was the first black woman to serve as a state's attorney general. She served as Indiana Attorney General from 1993 to 1997. Pamela Carter attended the University of Detroit, later earning a master's degree in social work from the University of Michigan and a law degree from the Indiana University School of Law. She worked as an enforcement attorney for Indiana's secretary of state, prior to her election as Indiana's attorney general in November 1992. She is the first African-American woman elected as a state's attorney general. Carter"
"She was survived by her adopted daughter, Dorothy Rae. Her lifelong friend, Judge John J. Sirica, who would later preside over the Watergate case, said of her, ""If Mabel had worn trousers, she could have been president."" Mabel Walker Willebrandt Mabel Walker Willebrandt (May 23, 1889 – April 6, 1963), popularly known to her contemporaries as the First Lady of Law, was a U.S. Assistant Attorney General from 1921 to 1929, handling cases concerning violations of the Volstead Act, federal taxation, and the Bureau of Federal Prisons during the Prohibition Era. Willebrandt was born Mabel Elizabeth Walker in Woodsdale, Kansas,"
"Sir John Randolph, attorney general for the Colony of Virginia and her grand-uncle was Edmund Randolph, the first Attorney General of the United States. Her mother was a niece of Commodore Edward Preble, U.S. Navy. Her sisters were Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the translator, and Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis (1834–1922), a writer who published the comedy entitled ""The Coming Woman, or the Spirit of '76"" in 1870, which has been acted in public and private both in the United States and in Europe. Ariana was married to prominent banker and patron of the arts, Daniel Sargent Curtis (1825–1908). She was educated"
"the socially prominent Wood. (Reno would instead face something often experienced by unmarried woman of her age, speculation about her sexual orientation.) In making the announcement, Clinton said that he had considered men for the post and that ""I never felt hamstrung by any commitment, even though I did want to name a woman Attorney General."" When asked how he would have handled the selection were he to do it all over again, Clinton responded, ""I would have called Janet Reno on November 5th."" Reno was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on March 11, 1993, and thus became the first"
"to Martin Halpern, former Brandeis University professor of playwriting and dramatic literature. They live in Brooklyn and have one son, Robert, born in 1986. Underwood had one previous marriage which ended in divorce. Underwood is Jewish. Barbara Underwood Barbara Dale Underwood (born August 16, 1944) is an American lawyer serving as the New York State Attorney General since May 8, 2018. She previously served as the Solicitor General of New York, first appointed to the position by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in January 2007, and reappointed in 2011 by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. On May 8,"
"Jill Wine-Banks Jill Wine-Banks was born Jill Wine, in 1943 in Chicago, Illinois.). She is a United States lawyer who was one of the prosecutors during the Watergate scandal. Wine-Banks later served under President Jimmy Carter as the first woman to hold the position of US General Counsel of the Army (1977-80). She was also the first woman to hold the position of the executive director of the American Bar Association. Jill Wine was raised in Chicago, where her father was a Certified Public Accountant. She was educated at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, receiving a B.S. in Communication"
"and technical education, a post she held until 2008. Since November 2008, Wine-Banks has worked as a consultant with F & H Solutions. Wine-Banks's marriage to Ian Volner ended in divorce. She then married antiques dealer Michael Banks. Jill Wine-Banks Jill Wine-Banks was born Jill Wine, in 1943 in Chicago, Illinois.). She is a United States lawyer who was one of the prosecutors during the Watergate scandal. Wine-Banks later served under President Jimmy Carter as the first woman to hold the position of US General Counsel of the Army (1977-80). She was also the first woman to hold the position"
"Mabel Walker Willebrandt Mabel Walker Willebrandt (May 23, 1889 – April 6, 1963), popularly known to her contemporaries as the First Lady of Law, was a U.S. Assistant Attorney General from 1921 to 1929, handling cases concerning violations of the Volstead Act, federal taxation, and the Bureau of Federal Prisons during the Prohibition Era. Willebrandt was born Mabel Elizabeth Walker in Woodsdale, Kansas, on May 23, 1889. Her father, David W. Walker, edited a local newspaper. In February 1910, she married Arthur Willebrandt, the principal of the school where she was teaching, and they moved to Phoenix, where he recuperated"
"Lori Swanson Lori Swanson (born December 16, 1966) is an American lawyer serving as the Attorney General of Minnesota. She is the first female Attorney General elected in Minnesota. In 2018, she ran for Governor of Minnesota with running mate U.S. Representative Rick Nolan finishing in third place in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary. Swanson was born on December 16, 1966. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her J.D. ""magna cum laude"" from William Mitchell College of Law in Saint Paul. Swanson served as Deputy Attorney General during Mike Hatch's first term, and as Solicitor General during"
"in 2007. In her personal life she uses her married name, Loretta Lynch Hargrove. Her husband has two children from a previous marriage. Loretta Lynch Loretta Elizabeth Lynch (born May 21, 1959) is an American lawyer who served as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States from 2015 to 2017. She was appointed by President Barack Obama to succeed Eric Holder and previously served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York under both President Bill Clinton (1999–2001) and Barack Obama (2010–2015). As a U.S. Attorney, Lynch oversaw federal prosecutions in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island"
"Barbara Underwood Barbara Dale Underwood (born August 16, 1944) is an American lawyer serving as the New York State Attorney General since May 8, 2018. She previously served as the Solicitor General of New York, first appointed to the position by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in January 2007, and reappointed in 2011 by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. On May 8, 2018, she became Acting Attorney General following her predecessor's resignation. On May 22, 2018, the New York State Legislature appointed her Attorney General. Prior to the appointment, Underwood announced she would not run as a candidate"
"Zoë Baird Zoë Eliot Baird (born June 20, 1952) is an American lawyer who is president of the Markle Foundation. She is known for her role in the Nannygate matter of 1993, which arose when she was nominated by President Bill Clinton as the first woman to be Attorney General of the United States, but she withdrew her nomination when it was discovered she had hired undocumented immigrants and failed to pay taxes. In the last 15 years, she has led the Markle Foundation. Baird earned an A.B. with a joint degree in political science and communications and public policy,"
"is also the first African American and the first woman attorney general in Indiana's history. In Indiana, Carter is only the second African American elected to statewide office. In 1995, she was included on ""Ebony""′s list of ""100 Most Influential Black Americans."" Pamela Carter Pamela Lynn Carter (born Pamela Lynn Fanning; August 20, 1949) was the first black woman to serve as a state's attorney general. She served as Indiana Attorney General from 1993 to 1997. Pamela Carter attended the University of Detroit, later earning a master's degree in social work from the University of Michigan and a law degree"
"two grown children. Ellen Rosenblum Ellen F. Rosenblum (born January 6, 1951) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the Oregon Attorney General since 2012. She is the first female state attorney general in Oregon's history, and previously was a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 2005 to 2011. Rosenblum was born in Berkeley, California, one of eight children of Jewish parents Victor and Louise Rosenblum. The family moved to Evanston, Illinois, where her father was a law professor at Northwestern University for 40 years,; he was also president of Reed College from 1968 to"
"the major cabinet posts would go to a woman. In particular, he wanted to nominate one for the position of United States Attorney General, something women's political action groups were also requesting. No woman had previously served in this post. His choice, whose nomination was announced on December 24, 1992, was Zoë Baird, a 40-year-old senior vice president and general counsel at Aetna Life and Casualty Company who had previously worked in the Justice Department during the Carter administration. Little known before the nomination (Clinton had not met her until their interview), Baird was a skilled networker who had been"
"Lisa Madigan Lisa Murray Madigan (born July 30, 1966) is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served as Attorney General of the U.S. state of Illinois since 2003, being the first woman to hold that position. She is also the stepdaughter of Michael Madigan, who has served as Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives since 1997. On September 15, 2017, Madigan announced that she would not seek re-election as the state’s attorney general in 2018. Madigan attended The Latin School of Chicago for her secondary education. In 1988 she received her bachelor's"
"the Attorney General. In December of that year Uphaus was sentenced to a year in jail for contempt of court. The sentence lasted from December 14, 1959, to December 13, 1960. The Uphaus couple remained directors until 1969. Ola died in 1972, and Willard in 1983. In 1969, Katheryn ""Kit"" Schmauch (née Hively, b. 1933) and her husband (né Werner Schmauch - b. 1935) became directors. Kit, a teacher, was from Columbus, Ohio, and Christoph, a Lutheran minister from East Germany who had immigrated to the United States in the late 1950s. They had three young children (and Kit was"