Sally Quillian Yates is an attorney in the United States. Sally has worked as a United States Attorney and then as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She was born into a legal household. Lawyers were her grandmother, grandfather, and father. Her grandmother, who was one of the first women to be appointed to the Georgia bar, was her greatest influence. President Donald Trump sacked her after only ten days in office for refusing to defend his visa 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 claimed, has “trampled on the rule of law” and conducts the country like a “family company.” Sally Quillian is very active on social media, with over 920k followers on Twitter (@SallyQYates).

What is the Net Worth of Sally Quillian Yates?

Sally Quillian Yates is an attorney who has made a solid living as a lawyer. She has also worked as a United States Attorney and the United States Deputy Attorney General. Her net worth is believed to be over $8 million as of 2020, with no information on her pay.

What is Sally Quillian Yates famous for?

• Formerly serving as the United States’ Deputy Attorney General.

Early Years and Education

Sally Quillian Yates was born on August 20, 1960, in Atlanta, Georgia, to John Kelley Quillian, a judge who served on the Georgia Court of Appeals, and Xara “Mickey” DeBeaugrine Quillian, an interior designer. She has a sister named Terell Quillian Marshall. Her grandmother was one of the first women to serve on the Georgia Court of Appeals. Sally Quillian Yates is an American national with a White ethnic background, a Leo zodiac sign, and a Christian (Methodist) religious belief system.

Sally graduated from Dunwoody High School and went on to the University of Georgia, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1982. She then went on to the University of Georgia School of Law, where she earned a Juris Doctor degree, graduating magna cum laude. She worked as the executive editor for Georgia Law.

Sally Quillian Yates Career Highlights:

• Sally Quillian Yates was admitted to the Georgia State Bar in 1986 and worked as an associate at King & Spalding in Atlanta from 1986 to 1989.
• Bob Barr assigned her to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in 1989.
• She became Chief of the Fraud and Public Corruption Section in 1994, and during that time she was the principal prosecutor in the case of Eric Rudolph, the bomber at the Centennial Olympic Park.
• Sally was elevated to First Assistant United States Attorney in 2002 and then to Acting United States Attorney in 2004.
• She was appointed to be Vice-Chair of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee by Attorney General Eric Holder while serving as a U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Georgia by then-President Barack Obama in 2010. She was the first woman to hold that position in the Northern District of Georgia.
• Sally Quillian Yates was appointed 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. That same year, she authored the “Yates memo,” which prioritizes the prosecution of executives for corporate crimes.

• In January 2017, Sally Quillian Yates accepted the position 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 cabinet, 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 bipartisan investigation into Russia’s active measures campaign targeting the 2016 U.S. election, but chairman Devin Nunes canceled the hearing because Sally Yates’ testimony had not been discussed with the White House.
• Sally Quillian Yates and James Clapper spoke 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 then served as a lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center before returning to Atlanta as a partner at King & Spalding, an international law company.

Awards And Honors:

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

Her Husband:

Sally Quillian Yates is a married lady who is married to J. Comer Yates, the executive director of the Atlanta Speech School, and they have two children: Kelley Malone Yates and James “Quill” Quillian Yates. She and her family currently reside in Atlanta.

Body Stats

Sally Yates is 60 years old as of August 20, 2020, and she is a lovely lady with a fair skin tone, standing at 1.65 m (5 feet and 6 inches) tall and weighing roughly 59 kg (130 lbs.). Her hair is Dark Brown, and her eyes are similarly Dark Brown. Her sexual orientation is Straight.

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