Dana Boente

Dana Boente
General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
In office
January 23, 2018 – June 30, 2020
DirectorChristopher A. Wray
Preceded byJames Baker
Succeeded byJason A. Jones[1]
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia
In office
September 23, 2013 – January 28, 2018
Acting: September 23, 2013 – December 15, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Donald Trump
Preceded byNeil MacBride
Succeeded byG. Zachary Terwilliger
United States Deputy Attorney General
Acting
February 9, 2017 – April 25, 2017
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded bySally Yates
Succeeded byRod Rosenstein
United States Attorney General
Acting
January 30, 2017 – February 9, 2017
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded bySally Yates (acting)
Succeeded byJeff Sessions
Personal details
Born
Dana James Boente

(1954-02-07) February 7, 1954 (age 70)
Carlinville, Illinois, U.S.
EducationSaint Louis University (BS, MBA, JD)

Dana James Boente (/ˈbɛnt/ Bent-Ë[2]) (born February 7, 1954) is an American attorney who served as General Counsel of the FBI from January 2018 to 2020, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from September 2013 to January 2018,[3] and as the Acting United States Attorney General from January to February 2017. He also served as acting assistant attorney general for the National Security Division of the United States Department of Justice. On October 27, 2017, Boente announced he would resign from the Department of Justice after a successor is in place.[4] On January 23, 2018, Boente was named general counsel to the FBI by the director Christopher A. Wray, filling the vacancy after James Baker's reassignment to another part of the bureau.

  1. ^ Jason A. Jones Named FBI General Counsel
  2. ^ "Dana Boente: Who Is the New Acting Attorney General?". The New York Times. January 31, 2017. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
  3. ^ "Meet the U.S. Attorney: Dana J. Boente". U.S. Department of Justice. Retrieved February 1, 2016. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ Frank Green (October 27, 2017). "Dana Boente, U.S. attorney for Eastern District of Virginia, resigns". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved October 30, 2017.