Robert Montague "Monty" Wilkinson is an American lawyer who has spent his entire career at the Justice Department. He served as acting

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from January 20 to March 10, 2021. Wilkinson is presently the director of the

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Education

Wilkinson graduated from

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in 1983 and from the

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in 1988.

Career

In 1989, Wilkinson served as a law clerk to

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, then a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He joined the U.S. Department of Justice as a trial attorney in 1990 and subsequently worked as special counsel and spokesperson for the

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, becoming an associate deputy attorney general in 1997. Wilkinson worked for the

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, the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and the law firm Troutman Sanders, before being appointed deputy chief of staff and counselor to the attorney general in 2009. In 2011, Wilkinson was appointed principal deputy director and chief of staff of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, and was appointed its director in 2014. In 2017, he was appointed senior counselor in the Office of the Assistant Attorney General for Administration, and in 2019 he was appointed Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Human Resources and Administration. From January 20, 2021 until March 10, 2021, Wilkinson served as acting

under President Joe Biden. Following

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's confirmation as Attorney General, Wilkinson was reappointed director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, a position he previously held in 2017.

References

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