Sally Yates
- Former Deputy Attorney General, Administration of President Barack Obama
- Partner, Special Matters and Government Investigations, King & Spalding
Sally Yates is a partner in the Atlanta law firm King & Spalding, in the special matters and government investigations practice. She served as deputy attorney general in the Barack Obama administration and as acting attorney general under President Donald Trump. She previously served in both Democratic and Republican administrations as a career civil servant at the Department of Justice, including as an assistant US attorney and later US attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, the first woman to hold that role. Yates graduated from the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and earned a JD from the University of Georgia School of Law.
Events
Toward a More Responsible and Effective Presidency (Day One)
William Antholis, Don Baer, Peter Baker, Laura Barrón-López, Bob Bauer, Joshua Bolten, Meena Bose, Valerie Smith Boyd, Robert Bruner, Stephen Burns , and more
Leading scholars, journalists, and key practitioners, drawn from both Republican and Democratic administrations, diagnose the problem with the American presidency on day one of this two-day discussion.
Toward a More Responsible and Effective Presidency (Day Two)
William Antholis, Don Baer, Peter Baker, Laura Barrón-López, Bob Bauer, Joshua Bolten, Meena Bose, Valerie Smith Boyd, Robert Bruner, Stephen Burns , and more
Leading scholars, journalists, and key practitioners, drawn from both Republican and Democratic administrations, focus on how to fix problems with the American presidency on day two of this two-day discussion.