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Sally Yates - Partner, King & Spalding

Sally Yates

Partner, King & Spalding; Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General
Co-Chair, Task Force on Long Sentences; Task Force on Federal Priorities

Yates is a career federal prosecutor whose early work included serving as lead lawyer in the trial of Eric Rudolph, the man convicted in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing, and high-profile public corruption cases. In 2010, President Obama made Yates the first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. In 2015, she became Deputy Attorney General, overseeing the Justice Department’s prosecutorial, litigation, and national security components as well as all U.S. Attorneys’ offices and DOJ law enforcement agencies.

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