The front offices at the Justice Department are filling up. This evening, the department sent out a list of political appointees "onboard" as of Jan. 29. Some names you've seen here before. Some you haven't. We've helpfully included recent employment history in parenthesis.
David Anderson: Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division (former head of the Civil Division's Federal Program's Branch)
David Barron: Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel (professor, Harvard Law School)
John Bies: Counselor to the Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General (partner, Covington & Burling)
Eric Columbus: Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Deputy Attorney General (counsel, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr)
Rajesh De: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy (partner, Mayer Brown)
Stuart Delery: Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Deputy Attorney General (partner, Wilmer)
Steven Fagell: Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division (partner, Covington)
James Garland: Counselor to the Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General (partner, Covington)
Chad Golder: Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Deputy Attorney General (associate, Wilmer)
Neal Katyal: Principal Deputy Solicitor General, Office of the Solicitor General (professor, Georgetown University Law Center)
Martin Lederman: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel (professor, Georgetown University Law Center)
Aaron Lewis: Counsel to the Attorney General, Office of Attorney General (associate, Covington)
Neil MacBride: Associate Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Deputy Attorney General ( vice president for anti-piracy and general counsel, Business Software Alliance)
Lisa Monaco: Associate Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Deputy Attorney General (chief of staff to FBI Director Robert Mueller III)
Daphna Renan: Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Deputy Attorney General (associate, Wilmer)
Margaret Richardson: Counselor to the Attorney General for Executive Branch Relations, Office of the Attorney General (director of the Clean Slate Clinic, East Bay Community Law Center)
Laurel Robinson: Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs (former head of OJP in Clinton administration)
Kathryn Ruemmler: Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Deputy Attorney (partner, Latham & Watkins)
Amy Jeffress: Counselor to the Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General (detail from the U.S. Attorney's office for the District of Columbia)
Ed Siskel: Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Deputy Attorney General (detail from the U.S. Attorney's office for the Northern District of Illinois)
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