---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 504a"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "504a"
heading: "Associate Attorney General"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/504a"
units:
  - "Part II — Department of Justice"
  - "Chapter 31 — The Attorney General"
---

# §504a. Associate Attorney General


The President may appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an Associate Attorney General.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 95–139, § 1(a), Oct. 19, 1977, 91 Stat. 1171.)