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Attorney General for England and Wales
The Attorney General for England and Wales (AGEW) is the UK Government's chief legal adviser to the Crown, superintendent of the CPS and Serious Fraud Office, and holder of independent public interest functions; the current holder is Ellie Reeves KC MP.
Attorney General of Ireland
The Attorney General of Ireland (Ard-Aighneacht na hÉireann) is the constitutional legal adviser to the Government of Ireland, its chief law officer, appointed on the Taoiseach's nomination.
Attorney General of Malta
The Attorney General of Malta is Malta's independent chief public prosecutor, an office created under British rule in 1832 and headed since 2020 by Victoria Buttigieg.
Attorney-General for Ireland
Attorney-General for Ireland: the pre-independence chief law officer whose functions passed under the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 to the Free State Attorney-General and continue in the modern constitutional office under Article 30 of the 1937 Constitution.
Attorney-General of Ceylon
The Attorney-General of Ceylon, formerly the Queen's Advocate of Ceylon, was the chief law officer and principal public prosecutor of Ceylon, renamed from Queen's Advocate in 1884.
Audrey G. Fleissig
Audrey Goldstein Fleissig, born 1955, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, nominated by President Obama in 2010 and confirmed 90 to 0.
Augustyn Rotundus
Augustyn Rotundus (Augustinas Rotundas, c. 1520–1582) was a Polish-born lawyer and royal secretary, wójt of Vilnius, best known for his 1564 dialogue Rozmowa Polaka z Litwinem.
Austin Knudsen
Austin Knudsen is an American Republican politician serving as Attorney General of Montana, first elected in 2020 and reelected in 2024 after working as a county prosecutor in Indian Country.
Australian Army Legal Corps
The Australian Army Legal Corps is the corps of Australian Army officers, all admitted legal practitioners, who advise commanders and specialize in operational, administrative, and disciplinary law.
Azam Khan (politician)
Mohammad Azam Khan (born 1948, Rampur) is a Samajwadi Party co-founder, ten-time Uttar Pradesh MLA from Rampur Sadar, and former minister with eight portfolios. Distinguished by 111 criminal cases, six convictions, two Sitapur jail stints, and 2022 and 2025 Assembly disqualifications.
B. L. Winmill
B. Lynn Winmill, born 1952 in Blackfoot, Idaho, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Idaho, appointed by President Clinton in 1995.
B. N. Rau
Sir Benegal Narsing Rau (1887–1953), Indian Civil Service officer and judge, was Constitutional Adviser to India's Constituent Assembly and prepared the October 1947 first draft Constitution; later India's UN representative and first Indian judge on the International Court of Justice.
Bailiff
Bailiff: officer executing court orders, from Old French baillif (c. 1300). Covers medieval English estate and Crown officers, modern England and Wales enforcement agents, US courtroom bailiffs, and the French commissaire de justice.
Bailiff Byrd
Bailiff Byrd is Petri Hawkins Byrd (born 1957, Brooklyn), the only bailiff on Judge Judy for all 25 seasons (1996–2021), a former real New York court officer with Sheindlin, later bailiff on Tribunal Justice.
Baltasar Garzón
Baltasar Garzón, Spanish ex-magistrate of the Audiencia Nacional known as the 'superjuez'; ordered Pinochet's 1998 London arrest under universal jurisdiction; convicted and disqualified in the 2012 Gürtel wiretap case, later ruled arbitrary by the UN Human Rights Committee; now a lawyer and FIBGAR president.
Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies
Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies: disputes over Senate filibusters of his lower-court nominees, the 2013 Reid nuclear option, the blocked D.C. Circuit seats, the 52.5% second-term confirmation rate, and the unvoted 2016 Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination.
Barbara Ann Crancer
Barbara Ann Crancer (born 1938), daughter of Jimmy Hoffa and sister of James P. Hoffa, was a St. Louis County associate circuit judge 1992-2008 who sued the Justice Department for the FBI's Hoffa file.
Barbara B. Crabb
Barbara B. Crabb, full name Barbara Brandriff Crabb, is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the Western District of Wisconsin since 1979.
Barbara Fried
Barbara H. Fried (Barbara Fried), Stanford Law School Saunders Professor emerita, legal scholar of distributive justice, taxation, and Robert Hale; mother of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, sued by the FTX estate in 2023.
Barbara J. Rothstein
Barbara J. Rothstein, born 1939, is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge in the Western District of Washington appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Barbara Lagoa
Barbara Lagoa (born 1967, Miami) is a Cuban-American federal judge on the Eleventh Circuit, formerly a Florida Supreme Court justice appointed by DeSantis in 2019 and a 2020 Trump Supreme Court shortlist contender.
Barbara M. Keenan
Barbara M. Keenan, also known as Barbara Milano Keenan, is an American jurist serving as a senior federal appeals judge on the Fourth Circuit since 2021.
Barbara Underwood
Barbara D. Underwood, New York Solicitor General since 2007 and the state's 66th and first female Attorney General (2018), formerly Principal Deputy and Acting U.S. Solicitor General; argued roughly 21 Supreme Court cases including Bruen and Commerce v. New York.
Barrington D. Parker, Jr.
Barrington D. Parker, Jr., also known as Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a Second Circuit judge since 2001, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Barry G. Silverman
Barry G. Silverman (born 1951) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Barry Scheck
Barry Scheck is an American lawyer and legal scholar who co-founded the Innocence Project in 1992 and served as a DNA expert on the O.J. Simpson defense team.
Barry T. Moskowitz
Barry T. Moskowitz, also known as Barry Ted Moskowitz, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of California since 2019.
Barry W. Ashe
Barry W. Ashe, full name Barry Weldon Ashe, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana since 2018.
Bathe family (Irish judicial dynasty)
The Bathe (Bath) family, an Anglo-Norman Irish judicial dynasty of Drumcondra and Meath, supplied James Bathe (chief baron 1535) and John Bathe (solicitor general 1551, chief justice of common pleas 1554, exchequer chancellor 1577), allied by marriage to the Prestons and Dillons, and produced the Jesuit William Bathe and courtier Sir John Bathe (d. 1630).
Beau Biden
Beau Biden (Joseph R. Biden III, 1969–2015), eldest son of President Joe Biden, was Attorney General of Delaware 2007–2015 and a Delaware Army National Guard Major who served in Iraq 2008–2009; he died of brain cancer at 46.