Sally Yates
Sally Caroline Yates (née Quillian; born 1960) is an American lawyer. She served as a United States Attorney, later United States Deputy Attorney General, having been appointed to both positions by President Barack Obama, and later as Acting United States Attorney General.
Following the inauguration of Donald Trump and the departure of Attorney General Loretta Lynch on January 20, 2017, Yates served as Acting Attorney General for 10 days. She was dismissed for insubordination by President Trump on January 30, after she instructed the Justice Department not to make legal arguments defending Executive Order 13769, which temporarily banned the admission of refugees and barred travel from certain Muslim-majority countries (later to include North Korea) on the grounds that terrorists were using the U.S. refugee resettlement program to enter the country. The ban was politically labeled as a Muslim ban. Rather than defend it, Yates stated the order was neither defensible in court nor consistent with the Constitution. Though large portions of the order were initially blocked by federal courts, the Supreme Court ultimately upheld a revised version.
Following her dismissal, Yates returned to private practice.
Yates was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to John Kelley Quillian (1930–1986), an attorney and judge who served as a judge on the Georgia Court of Appeals between 1966 and 1984, and his wife, Xara "Mickey" DeBeaugrine Quillian (née Terrell; 1931–2012), an interior designer. Her grandmother had been one of the first women admitted to the Georgia Bar; however, she was not hired as an attorney, instead working as a legal secretary for Yates's grandfather.
Yates went to Dunwoody High School and attended the University of Georgia, receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1982. In 1986, she earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Georgia School of Law, graduating magna cum laude. While in law school, Yates served as the executive editor of the Georgia Law Review.
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