Hampton Yeats Dellinger (born April 30, 1967) is an American attorney and political candidate serving as the United States Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy. He was previously a partner at

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and Robinson, Bradshaw, and Hinson.

Education

Dellinger earned a

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degree from the

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and a Juris Doctor from

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Career

From January 2001 to June 2003, he served as legal counsel for Governor Mike Easley. From July 2001 to June 2003, he also served as a member of the governor's advisory council on Hispanic/Latino affairs. From July 2003 to January 2008, he was a

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with the firm Womble Carlyle. From 2008 to 2013, Dellinger was a lawyer in the office of Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson and a candidate for the 2008 Democratic nomination for

lieutenant governor of North Carolina The lieutenant governor of North Carolina is the second-highest elected official in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is the only elected official to have powers in both the legislative and executive branches of state government. A member o ...

. In his first run for elective office, he lost the Democratic primary on May 6, 2008 to Walter H. Dalton. From 2013 to 2020, he was a partner at the Washington, D.C. office of

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. He has been practicing as a solo practitioner since November 2020. In 2009, Senator

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recommended Dellinger and two other lawyers to President

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for consideration as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Obama eventually nominated attorney Thomas G. Walker instead. On October 28, 2021, the U.S. Senate voted 53-37 to confirm Dellinger as the United States Department of Justice's

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for the

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. He was sworn in on November 1, 2021.

Personal life

Dellinger is the son of the late law professor and former acting Solicitor General of the United States, Walter E. Dellinger III.

References

External links

Boies, Schiller & Flexner profileNews & Observer profile page
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