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|headquarters = [[Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building]]<br>950 [[Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.)|Pennsylvania Avenue]] [[Northwest, Washington, D.C.|NW]]<br>[[Washington, D.C.]], United States
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|chief1_name     = Brian Boynton
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The '''United States Department of Justice Civil Division''' represents the [[United States]], its departments and agencies, [[members of Congress]], [[United States Cabinet|cabinet officers]], and other federal employees. Led by the '''United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division''', the Division's litigation reflects the diversity of government activities, involving, for example, the defense of challenges to presidential actions; national security issues; benefit programs; energy policies; commercial issues such as contract disputes, banking insurance, patents, fraud, and debt collection; all manner of accident and liability claims; enforcement of immigration laws; and civil and criminal violations of [[consumer protection]] laws. Each year, Division attorneys handle thousands of cases that collectively involve billions of dollars in claims and recoveries. The Division confronts significant policy issues, which often rise to constitutional dimensions, in defending and enforcing various Federal programs and actions.

In April 2021, President [[Joe Biden]] nominated Javier Guzman to lead the division as Assistant Attorney General.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-27|title=Biden nominates former DOJ official to lead civil division -White House|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-nominates-former-doj-official-lead-civil-division-white-house-2021-04-27/|access-date=2021-04-27|website=Reuters}}</ref> That nomination was withdrawn on July 20, 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nominations and Withdrawals Sent to the Senate |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/20/nominations-and-withdrawals-sent-to-the-senate/ |website=The White House |access-date=20 July 2021 |date=20 July 2021}}</ref>

==Organization==
The Civil Division is made up of the following offices:
*Appellate Staff 
*Commercial Litigation Branch
Civil Fraud Section
General Corporate/Financial Litigation Section
Intellectual Property Section 
Foreign Litigation Section
National Courts Section
* Consumer Protection Branch
*Federal Programs Branch
National Security, Foreign Relations, and Law Enforcement Section
Interstate and Foreign Commerce Section 
Government Agencies and Corporations Section 
Nondiscrimination Personnel Litigation Section 
Discrimination in Employment Litigation Section 
Human Resources Section
Interior, Agriculture, and Energy Concerns Section
Housing and Community Development Section
Freedom of Information and Privacy Section
Regulatory Enforcement and Defensive Banking Litigation Section
Disability Litigation Section
*Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL)
Appellate Section
District Court Section
*Office of Management Programs
*Torts Branch
Aviation, Space & Admiralty Section
Federal Tort Claims Act Section
Environmental Torts Section
Constitutional and Specialized Torts Section
Tobacco Litigation Section

== List of assistant attorneys general ==
[[File:WarrenBurger-Assistant AG.jpg|right|thumb|187px|Former assistant attorney general and future [[Chief Justice of the United States]], [[Warren E. Burger]]]]
[[File:Carla A. Hills official portrait.jpg|right|thumb|187px|[[Carla Anderson Hills]], the first female Assistant Attorney General]]
[[File:TonyWest-Official DOJ Portrait.jpg|right|thumb|187px|[[Tony West (attorney)|Tony West]], the first African American Assistant Attorney General]]
 
{|class="wikitable"
!#
!Name
!Term began
!Term ended
![[President of the United States|President(s)]] served under
|-
|1
| Charles B. Rugg
| 1930
| 1933
| [[Herbert Hoover]]
|-
|2
| [[George Clinton Sweeney|George C. Sweeney]]
| 1933
| 1935
|rowspan=5|[[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]
|-
|3
| Angus D. MacLean
| 1935
|
|-
|4
| James W. Morris
| 1935
| 1937
|-
|5
| Sam E. Whitaker
| 1937
| 1939
|-
|6
| [[Francis M. Shea]]
| 1939
| 1945
|-
|7
| John F. Sonnett
| 1945
| 1947
|rowspan=4|[[Harry S. Truman]]
|-
|8
| [[Peyton Ford]]
| 1947
| 1949
|-
|9
| H. Graham Morison
| 1949
| 1951
|-
|10
| [[Holmes Baldridge]]
| 1951
| 1953
|-
|11
| [[Warren E. Burger]]
| 1953
| 1956
|rowspan=2|[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
|-
|12
| [[George Cochran Doub]]
| 1956
| 1960
|-
|13
| [[William Horsley Orrick Jr.]]
| 1961
| 1963
| [[John F. Kennedy]]
|-
|14
| [[John W. Douglas]]
| 1963
| 1966
| [[John F. Kennedy]]<br>[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
|-
|15
| [[Barefoot Sanders|H. Barefoot Sanders Jr.]]
| 1966
| 1967
|rowspan=2|[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
|-
|16
| Edwin L. Weisl Jr.
| 1967
| 1969 
|-
|17
| [[William Ruckelshaus]]
| 1969
| 1970
|rowspan=4|[[Richard M. Nixon]]
|-
|18
| [[L. Patrick Gray]]
| 1970
| 1972 
|-
|19
| [[Harlington Wood Jr.]]
| 1972
| 1973
|-
|20
| [[Carla Anderson Hills]]
| 1973
| 1975
|-
|21
| [[Rex E. Lee]]
| 1975
| 1977
| [[Gerald R. Ford]]
|-
|22
| [[Barbara A. Babcock]]
| 1977
| 1979
|rowspan=2|[[Jimmy Carter]]
|-
|23
| Alice Daniels
| 1979
| 1981
|-
|24
| Paul J. McGrath
| 1981
| 1985
|rowspan=3|[[Ronald Reagan]]
|-
|25
| [[Richard K. Willard]]
| 1985
| 1988
|-
|26
| [[John R. Bolton]]
| 1988
| 1989
|-
|27
| [[Stuart M. Gerson]]
| 1989
| 1993
| [[George H. W. Bush]]
|-
|28
| [[Frank W. Hunger]]
| 1993
| 1999
|rowspan=2|[[Bill Clinton]] 
|-
|29
| [[David W. Ogden]] 
| 1999
| 2001
|-
|30
| [[Robert McCallum Jr.|Robert D. McCallum Jr.]]
| 2001
| 2003
|rowspan=3|[[George W. Bush]]
|-
|31
| [[Peter Keisler|Peter D. Keisler]]
| 2003
| 2007
|-
|32
| [[Gregory G. Katsas]]
| 2008
| 2009
|-
|33
| [[Tony West (attorney)|Tony West]]
| 2009
| 2012
|rowspan=3|[[Barack Obama]]
|-
|34
| [[Stuart F. Delery]]
| 2012
| 2016
|-
| —
| [[Benjamin C. Mizer]] (acting)
| 2016
| 2017
|-
| —
| [[Chad Readler]] (acting)
| 2017
| 2018
|rowspan=4|[[Donald Trump]]
|-
|35
| [[Jody Hunt]]
| 2018
| 2020
|-
| —
| [[Ethan P. Davis]] (acting)
| 2020
| 2020
|-
| —
| [[Jeffrey Clark]] (acting)
| 2020
| 2021
|-
| —
| [[Brian Boynton]] (acting)
| 2021
| present
| [[Joe Biden]]
|-
| colspan="5" | Source:<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.justice.gov/civil/common/aag_legacy.html | title =FORMER ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL | author =United States Department of Justice | author-link =United States Department of Justice | publisher =justice.gov | date =November 8, 2013}}</ref>
|}

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