Emil Bove
Emil Bove | |
|---|---|
Bove in 2017 | |
| Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General | |
| Assumed office January 20, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Marshall Miller |
| Acting United States Deputy Attorney General | |
| In office January 20, 2025 – March 6, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Lisa Monaco |
| Succeeded by | Todd Blanche |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Emil Joseph Bove III April 1981 (age 44) |
| Spouse |
Sarah Samis (m. 2012) |
| Education | University at Albany, SUNY (BA) Georgetown University (JD) |
Emil Joseph Bove III (/boʊˈveɪ/; born April 1981) is an American attorney who has served as the principal associate deputy attorney general since 2025. Bove served as the acting United States deputy attorney general from January to March 2025.
Bove studied public policy and economics at the University at Albany, SUNY and graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 2008. He clerked for judges Richard J. Sullivan and Richard C. Wesley and became an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell before returning to federal employment an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York in 2012. Bove was appointed co-chair of the office's terrorism and international narcotics unit in October 2019. He resigned in December 2021 and later joined Donald Trump's legal team in September 2023.
In November 2024, president-elect Trump named Bove as principal associate deputy attorney general. He was appointed acting deputy attorney general until Todd Blanche's confirmation in March 2025. Trump announced his intent to nominate Bove to fill a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in May.