HONOLULU: US President Barack Obama is expected to announce on Monday that US Attorney Sally Yates will be his nominee for deputy attorney general, the No. 2 position at the Justice Department, a US official said.
Yates currently serves as US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia where she has made a name for herself by prosecuting several high-profile cases.
She is known as a close ally of outgoing US Attorney Eric Holder's Justice Department.
If confirmed by Congress, Yates will replace outgoing Deputy Attorney General James Cole who is leaving the Justice Department in January and has not announced future plans.
The choice of Yates signals that little may change at the Justice Department after Holder leaves the post.
Yates currently serves on Holder's advisory committee of US attorneys under the leadership of Loretta Lynch, Obama's pick to be the next attorney general.
"Their very effective partnership leading the US attorney community will be taken to a whole new level," said US Attorney for New Jersey Paul Fishman, who previously led the committee.
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