Career Official Expected to Temporarily Lead Justice Dept.
The official is President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to take over while his attorney general nominee, Merrick Garland, seeks Senate confirmation.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s choice to lead the Justice Department, Monty Wilkinson, has decades of experience there.Credit.Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times
Jan. 19, 2021
WASHINGTON President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. was expected to select a longtime career civil servant at the Justice Department to serve as the acting attorney general after he is sworn in on Wednesday, according to a person briefed on the decision.
Mr. Biden’s choice, Monty Wilkinson, has been overseeing human resources, security planning and the library at the Justice Department and is unknown even to most Washington insiders. That low profile all but guarantees that was not involved in the myriad political scandals that defined the Justice Department under President Trump.