# United States Department of Justice chair entity: /record/us-department-of-justice.md predicate: chair page: /record/us-department-of-justice/chair as_of: 2026-11-13 cite: AsOf. "United States Department of Justice chair: Merrick Garland", as of 2021-03-11 (until 2025-01-20). Claim clm_969CD0B26695, https://asof.is/claim/clm_969CD0B26695, accessed 2026-11-13. Source: https://www.justice.gov/ag. As of November 13, 2026, the AsOf record names no chair for United States Department of Justice: Merrick Garland held the role from March 11, 2021 until January 20, 2025, from a primary source (justice.gov), and the record holds no successor yet. 1 claim on United States Department of Justice's chair, 0 open and 1 superseded, each dated and sourced; a replaced value is closed with an end date, never deleted. ## Last chair Nobody holds the role on the record on 2026-11-13; this claim is closed. - [United States Department of Justice](/record/us-department-of-justice.md) | chair | Merrick Garland | valid 2021-03-11 to 2025-01-20 | conf 0.95 | superseded | [clm_969CD0B26695](/claim/clm_969CD0B26695.md) sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1553390, https://www.justice.gov/ag, https://www.justice.gov/ag/bio/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland ## Every dated value One claim per line, oldest first. Superseded claims stay visible. - [United States Department of Justice](/record/us-department-of-justice.md) | chair | Merrick Garland | valid 2021-03-11 to 2025-01-20 | conf 0.95 | superseded | [clm_969CD0B26695](/claim/clm_969CD0B26695.md) sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1553390, https://www.justice.gov/ag, https://www.justice.gov/ag/bio/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland ## Questions this record answers ### Who is United States Department of Justice's chair? The record names none as of November 13, 2026. Merrick Garland held the role from March 11, 2021 until January 20, 2025, from a primary source (justice.gov); no successor is on the record yet. ### When did Merrick Garland leave as United States Department of Justice's chair? On January 20, 2025, after holding the role since March 11, 2021, from a primary source (justice.gov). ## Read on - This page: /record/us-department-of-justice/chair (markdown: /record/us-department-of-justice/chair.md) - Entity twin: /record/us-department-of-justice.md ยท timeline: /timelines/us-department-of-justice.md - Every company's chair: /facts/chair.md --- AsOf is a temporal fact ledger: a structured, dated, sourced record of what is true and what changed, built for AI retrieval.