United States · State

Attorney General

One holder at a time · 97 terms · 1789–present

Current holder

Previous holders 96

Pam Bondi 2025–2026 Merrick Garland 2021–2025 John Demers 2021 Jeffrey A. Rosen 2020–2021 William Barr 2019–2020 Matthew Whitaker 2018–2019 Jeff Sessions 2017–2018 Dana Boente 2017 Sally Yates 2017 Loretta Lynch 2015–2017 Eric Holder 2009–2015 Mark Filip 2009 Michael Mukasey 2007–2009 Peter Keisler 2007 Paul Clement 2007 Alberto Gonzales 2005–2007 John Ashcroft 2001–2005 Eric Holder 2001 Janet Reno 1993–2001 Stuart M. Gerson 1993 William Barr 1991–1993 William Barr 1991 Dick Thornburgh 1988–1991 Edwin Meese 1985–1988 William French Smith 1981–1985 Benjamin Civiletti 1979–1981 Griffin Bell 1977–1979 Edward H. Levi 1975–1977 William B. Saxbe 1974–1975 Robert Bork 1973–1974 Elliot Richardson 1973 Richard Kleindienst 1972–1973 John N. Mitchell 1969–1972 Ramsey Clark 1966–1969 Nicholas Katzenbach 1964–1966 Robert F. Kennedy 1961–1964 William P. Rogers 1957–1961 Herbert Brownell Jr. 1953–1957 James P. McGranery 1952–1953 J. Howard McGrath 1949–1952 Tom C. Clark 1945–1949 Francis Biddle 1941–1945 Robert H. Jackson 1940–1941 Frank Murphy 1939–1940 Homer Stille Cummings 1933–1939 William D. Mitchell 1929–1933 John G. Sargent 1925–1929 Harlan F. Stone 1924–1925 Harry M. Daugherty 1921–1924 A. Mitchell Palmer 1919–1921 Thomas Watt Gregory 1914–1919 James Clark McReynolds 1913–1914 Charles Joseph Bonaparte 1906–1909 William Henry Moody 1904–1906 Philander C. Knox 1901–1904 John W. Griggs 1898–1901 Joseph McKenna 1897–1898 Judson Harmon 1895–1897 Richard Olney 1893–1895 William H. H. Miller 1889–1893 Augustus H. Garland 1885–1889 Benjamin H. Brewster 1881–1885 Wayne MacVeagh 1881 Charles Devens 1877–1881 Alphonso Taft 1876–1877 Edwards Pierrepont 1875–1876 George Henry Williams 1871–1875 Ebenezer R. Hoar 1869–1870 William M. Evarts 1868–1869 Henry Stanbery 1866–1868 James Speed 1864–1866 Edward Bates 1861–1864 Edwin Stanton 1860–1861 Jeremiah S. Black 1857–1860 Caleb Cushing 1853–1857 John J. Crittenden 1850–1853 Reverdy Johnson 1849–1850 Isaac Toucey 1848–1849 Nathan Clifford 1846–1848 John Y. Mason 1845–1846 John Nelson 1843–1845 Hugh S. Legaré 1841–1843 John J. Crittenden 1841 Henry D. Gilpin 1840–1841 Felix Grundy 1838–1840 Roger B. Taney 1831–1833 John M. Berrien 1829–1831 William Wirt 1817–1829 Richard Rush 1814–1817 William Pinkney 1811–1814 Caesar Augustus Rodney 1807–1811 John Breckinridge 1805–1806 Robert Smith 1805 Levi Lincoln Sr. 1801–1805 William Bradford 1794–1795 Edmund Randolph 1789–1794

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