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On February 19, 1868, Lawrence introduced a bill in Congress to create the Department of Justice. President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill into law on June 22, 1870. [10] Grant appointed Amos T. Akerman as attorney general and Benjamin H. Bristow as America's first solicitor general the same week that Congress created the Department of ...
Organizational chart for the office of the Solicitor General. The solicitor general of the United States (USSG or SG), the fourth-highest-ranking official within the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), [1] represents the federal government in cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
The Justice Management Division (JMD) is a division of the United States Department of Justice. It is the administrative arm of the Department of Justice. Its mission is to support some 40 senior management offices (SMOs), offices, bureaus, and divisions (collectively called components) of the DOJ. It was formerly called the Office of ...
The United States Department of Justice Criminal Division is a federal agency of the United States Department of Justice that develops, enforces, and supervises the application of all federal criminal laws in the United States. Criminal Division attorneys prosecute many nationally significant cases and formulate and implement criminal ...
The Executive Office for United States Attorneys was created on April 6, 1953 by Attorney General Order No. 8-53, issued by then-Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr.The office, created as a part of the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, was to provide for close liaison between the Department of Justice in Washington, DC and the 93 U.S. Attorneys (USAs) throughout the 50 states, the ...
United States Department of Justice Civil Division; United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division; Community Oriented Policing Services; Community Relations Service; Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section; United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
The Office of Legal Policy (OLP) was established by Attorney General William French Smith in 1981 as the principal department office to plan, develop, and coordinate the implementation of major policy initiatives of high priority to the department and to the Administration, and to assist the President and the Attorney General in the Administration's judicial selection process for Article III ...
The head of the National Security Division is an Assistant Attorney General for National Security (AAG-NS) appointed by the President of the United States. Matthew G. Olsen, the current AAG-NS, was confirmed to the role with the advice and consent of the Senate. [5]