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Sally Yates Biography
Sally Yates is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on August 20, 1960 in United States. Lawyer who has become famous for her professional career as an US Attorney as well as a US Assistant Attorney General. She then served as acting Attorney General for 10 days in January 2017 and was then removed by the President Lawyer who has gained fame for her career as both a US Attorney and US Deputy Attorney General. She later served as Acting Attorney General for ten days in January 2017, and was soon dismissed by then-president Donald Trump when she declined to defend his travel ban executive order. when she refused to defend his executive order banning travel.
She was appointed the US Attorney General’s Deputy by President She was appointed as the US Deputy Attorney General by Barack Obama in 2015. in 2015.
Sally Caroline Yates (née Quillian; born 1960) is an American lawyer. She served as a United States Attorney and later United States Deputy Attorney General, having been appointed to both positions by President Barack Obama.
The New York Times and others drew comparisons to the 1973 Saturday Night Massacre, during the Watergate scandal, when Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus both resigned after refusing to carry out President Richard Nixon’s order to dismiss special prosecutor Archibald Cox. By analogy, some cable networks began calling Yates’s dismissal the “Monday Night Massacre”. However, Watergate investigative journalist Carl Bernstein, speaking on CNN, rejected the comparison. “There’s a big difference, because the Saturday Night Massacre was really about firing the attorney general when Nixon was the target of an investigation and was actively obstructing justice”, he said. “I think the president is within his rights here to fire the attorney general, that he has that ability.”
There are two children, Kelley and James along with the husband of her life, J. Comer Yates.
| Name | Sally Yates |
| First Name | Sally |
| Last Name | Yates |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Birthday | August 20 |
| Birth Year | 1960 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Home Town | |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Leo |
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| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Comer Yates |
| Children(s) | Kelley Malone Yates, James Quillian Yates |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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Yates has written and spoken about suicide prevention, discussing her father’s struggles with depression and his suicide in 1986.
Sally Yates Net Worth
Sally Yates is one of the richest Lawyer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sally Yates's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
She earned the BA diploma in Journalism in the year 1982 at The University of Georgia. She was later a graduate of magna cum laude at her University of Georgia School of Law with her JD in 1986.
She was professor at Georgetown University Law Center following her appointment as an Acting Attorney General. Her nomination was made in the name of She became a lecturer at the Georgetown University Law Center following her stint as Acting Attorney General. She was nominated by Jackie Speier for the 2017 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award for standing up against the travel ban executive order. for the 2017 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award to protest against the executive order.
Yates was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to John Kelley Quillian (1930–1986), an attorney and judge who served as a judge on the Georgia Court of Appeals between 1966 and 1984, and his wife, Xara “Mickey” DeBeaugrine Quillian (née Terrell; 1931–2012), an interior designer. Her grandmother had been one of the first women admitted to the Georgia Bar; however, she was not hired as an attorney, instead working as a legal secretary for Yates’s grandfather.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Lawyer |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
In 1986, Yates was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia. From 1986 to 1989, Yates was an associate at the law firm King & Spalding in Atlanta, specializing in commercial litigation. In 1989, she was hired as Assistant U.S. Attorney by Bob Barr for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia. Early in her career at the Department of Justice, Yates prosecuted a variety of types of cases including white-collar fraud and political corruption. In 1994, she became Chief of the Fraud and Public Corruption Section. She was the lead prosecutor in the case of Eric Rudolph, who committed the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, a terrorist convicted for a series of anti-abortion and anti-gay bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured over 120 others. She rose to First Assistant U.S. Attorney in 2002 and to Acting U.S. Attorney in 2004. In the U.S. Attorney’s office she held leadership positions under both Republican and Democratic administrations.
Yates’s husband, J. Comer Yates, is an executive director of the Atlanta Speech School. In 1994 and 1996, he unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a Democrat. The couple has two children, a daughter, Kelley Malone and a son, James “Quill” Quillian.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
Sally Yates height 5 ft 6 in Sally weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
| Height | 5 ft 6 in |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
Yates went to Dunwoody High School and attended the University of Georgia, receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1982. In 1986, she earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Georgia School of Law, graduating magna cum laude. While in law school, Yates served as the executive editor of the Georgia Law Review.
Yates is a Democrat. At the Department of Justice, she served under both Democratic and Republican administrations, as a career civil servant. She was hired by Republican Bob Barr for her first DOJ position. When appointed deputy attorney general in 2014, Yates was described as well-regarded and non-political; her appointment was praised by Georgia’s two senators, both Republicans. After leaving the Justice Department, Democrats in Georgia sought to draft Yates as a candidate for governor in 2018; she declined to run.
Who is Sally Yates Dating?
According to our records, Sally Yates married to Comer Yates. As of December 1, 2023, Sally Yates’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Sally Yates. You may help us to build the dating records for Sally Yates!President Barack Obama nominated Yates to be U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Georgia. She was confirmed by the Senate on March 10, 2010. Yates was the first woman to hold that position in the Northern District of Georgia. During her time as a U.S. Attorney, Yates was appointed by Attorney General Eric Holder to serve as Vice Chair of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee.
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Facts & Trivia
Sally Ranked on the list of most popular Lawyer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Sally Yates celebrates birthday on August 20 of every year.
As Deputy Attorney General, Yates was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Justice Department, which included approximately 113,000 employees. In 2015, she authored the policy, known as the “Yates memo”, prioritizing the prosecution of executives for corporate crimes. During the final days of the Obama administration, she oversaw the review of 16,000 petitions for executive clemency, making recommendations to the President.
How old is Sally Yates?
61 years (August 20, 1960)
Who was Sally in the Obama administration?
Sarah Margaret “Sally” Roffey Jewell (born February 21, 1956) is a British-American businessperson who served as the 51st United States secretary of the interior in the Obama administration from 2013 to 2017. Jewell was born in London and moved to the United States at age three.
Who was Barack Obama's attorney general?
Eric Himpton Holder Jr. (born January 21, 1951) is an American lawyer who served as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States from 2009 to 2015. Holder, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama, was the first African American to hold the position of U.S. attorney general.
Who is Sally Yates husband?
Comer Yates
Is Loretta Lynch married?
Stephen Hargrove
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