Sally Quillian Yates

Sally Quillian Yates is an American lawyer. She has served as a United States Attorney and later the United States Deputy Attorney General. She is a Democrat. She was born into a family of lawyers. Her Grandmother, Grandfather, and father were Lawyers. However, her biggest inspiration was her grandmother, who was one of the first women to be appointed to the Georgia bar. She was fired by President Donald Trump after 10 days in his administration for refusing to defend his travel ban.

Sally Quillian Yates endorsed Joe Biden in a speech on the second night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention on August 18, 2020. President Donald Trump, she said, has “trampled on the rule of law” and treats the country like a “family business.”

Sally Quillian is very popular on social media, with over 920k followers on Twitter (@SallyQYates).

Sally Quillian Yates is well-known for what she did.

Formerly serving as the United States’ Deputy Attorney General.

Sally Quillian Yates was born in the United States.

Sally Quillian Yates was born on August 20, 1960, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Sally Caroline Quillian is her given name. She was born to a lawyer, John Kelley Quillian, who had previously worked on the Georgia Court of Appeals, and an interior designer, Xara “Mickey” DeBeaugrine Quillian. Terell Quillian Marshall is her sister’s name. Her grandmother was one of the first women to be admitted to the Georgia bar, but she never practiced law.

Sally Quillian Yates was born in the United States and comes from a White racial background. Her astrological sign is Leo. She is a follower of the Christian (Methodist) faith.

She went to Dunwoody High School for her studies. She enrolled at the University of Georgia after graduating from high school and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1982. She then went to the University of Georgia School of Law and graduated with a Juris Doctor degree. She received a magna cum laude diploma. While in law school, she served as the executive editor for the Georgia Law Review.

Career Highlights of Sally Quillian Yates

In 1986, Sally Quillian Yates was admitted to the Georgia State Bar. From 1986 to 1989, she worked as a partner at the Atlanta law firm “King & Spalding.”

Bob Barr named her to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in 1989.

She was appointed Chief of the Fraud and Public Corruption Division in 1994. She was the lead prosecutor in the prosecution of Eric Rudolph, the perpetrator of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, at the time.

She was promoted to First Assistant United States Attorney in 2002 and then to Acting United States Attorney in 2004.

President Barack Obama recommended her for the position of U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia in 2010, and she became the first woman to hold that position in the Northern District of Georgia. Attorney General Eric Holder named her as Vice-Chair of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee when she was a U.S. Attorney.

Sally Quillian Yates was named Deputy Attorney General of the United States by the United States Senate on May 13, 2015, making her the second-highest-ranking official in the US Justice Department. She also wrote the “Yates memo” in the same year, which prioritizes the prosecution of executives for corporate crimes.

In January 2017, Sally Quillian Yates accepted the role of Acting Attorney General for the Trump administration, effective January 20, 2017.

Sally Quillian Yates was fired as Acting Attorney General on 30 January 2017 after refusing to defend a new immigration-related executive order proposed by Donald Trump’s newly established government, and she was replaced by Dana Boente, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

The House Intelligence Committee invited her to testify at a public hearing in March 2017 as part of the committee’s joint inquiry into Russia’s active measures operation targeting the 2016 U.S. election, but chairman Devin Nunes cancelled the hearing because Sally Yates’ testimony had not been negotiated with the White House.

Sally Quillian Yates and James Clapper testified for three hours in front of the Senate Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism on May 8, 2017, about Russian election meddling in 2016.

Sally Quillian Yates later worked as a professor at Georgetown University Law Center before returning to Atlanta as a partner at King & Spalding, a multinational law firm.

Awards and Awards For Sally Quillian Yates

In 2016, Sally Quillian Yates won the Emory Public Interest Committee (EPIC) Inspiration Award from Emory University School of Law.

Husband of Sally Quillian Yates

Sally Quillian Yates is a married woman with two children. J. Comer Yates, the executive director of the Atlanta Speech School, is her husband. Kelley Malone Yates is the couple’s daughter, and James “Quill” Quillian Yates is the couple’s son.

Sally Quillian Yates and her family currently live in Atlanta.

Height and Weight of Sally Quillian Yates

Sally Yates will be 60 years old on August 20, 2020. She is a lovely lady with a light skin tone. She stands 1.65 meters (5 feet and 6 inches) tall and weighs about 59 kilograms (130 lbs.). Her hair is dark brown, and her eyes are dark brown as well. Her sexual preference is that of a heterosexual woman.

Sally Quillian Yates’s net worth is undisclosed.

Sally Quillian Yates works as an attorney. Her professional work as a lawyer has provided her with a decent salary. She has since worked as a United States Attorney and as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States. Her net worth is expected to be around $8 million by 2020. Her remuneration has not been disclosed.