Benjamin Civiletti

Ben Civiletti
Civiletti in 1979
73rd United States Attorney General
In office August 16, 1979 – January 19, 1981
President	Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	Griffin Bell
Succeeded by	William French Smith
17th United States Deputy Attorney General
In office May 16, 1978 – August 16, 1979
President	Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	Peter F. Flaherty
Succeeded by	Charles B. Renfrew
United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division
In office March 10, 1977 – May 16, 1978
President	Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	Dick Thornburgh
Succeeded by	Philip Heymann
Personal details
Born	Benjamin Richard Civiletti (1935-07-17)July 17, 1935 Peekskill, New York, U.S.
Died	October 16, 2022(2022-10-16) (aged 87) Lutherville, Maryland, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Gaile Lundgren ​ (m. 1958)​
Children	3
Education	Johns Hopkins University (AB) Columbia University University of Maryland, Baltimore (LLB)

Benjamin Richard Civiletti (July 17, 1935 – October 16, 2022) was an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney General during the Carter administration, from 1979 to 1981. The first Italian American to lead the U.S. Department of Justice, he previously served as the Deputy Attorney General and Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. Later he was a senior partner in the Baltimore-based law firm of Venable LLP (known until 2003 as Venable, Baetjer & Howard).^[1] He specialized in commercial litigation and internal investigations working at Venable LLP.

Beginning in 2001, Civiletti was one of the three members of the Independent Review Board,^[2] a board that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union must answer to when allegations of corruption or organized crime infiltration surface under the terms of a consent decree issued in 1989^[3] by a federal district court judgment.^[4]