Deputy Attorney General: Jeffrey A. Rosen

Jeffrey A. Rosen was the 38th Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He served as the Department’s second-ranking official from May 2019 to January 2021.

As Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Rosen led numerous initiatives, including an antitrust review of online technology platforms, criminal and civil opioids enforcement and legislation, prosecutions of IP theft and cyberhacking, counter-UAS measures for safe drone use, redress of pandemic-related fraud, and reform of regulatory and administrative law. In February 2020 he delivered oral argument to the U.S. Supreme Court in Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez, a case involving prison inmate litigation.

Mr. Rosen previously served as Deputy Secretary of Transportation from 2017 to 2019. His other appointed public sector positions include General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor for the White House Office of Management and Budget (2006-2009) and General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Transportation (2003-2006). Additionally, Mr. Rosen was an appointed public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (2013-2017).

In the private sector, Mr. Rosen joined the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis as an associate in 1982 and became a partner in 1988. After his public-service appointments between 2003 and 2009, he returned to Kirkland & Ellis as a partner from 2009 to 2017.

Mr. Rosen chaired the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice during 2015 to 2016. He also taught professional responsibility and legal ethics as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

A native of Massachusetts, Mr. Rosen received his B.A. with highest distinction from Northwestern University (1979) and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (1982).