Dana Boente

What draws me to Dana Boente is how much weight he carried far from any spotlight. An Illinois-born lawyer out of Saint Louis University, he rose from federal prosecutor to U.S. Attorney to acting Attorney General, and later served as the FBI's General Counsel. Those are roles you only land if people trust your judgment under genuine pressure, and he stepped into the acting AG seat during one of the most turbulent stretches in recent memory. I have a quiet admiration for figures like him: not famous, not flashy, but the kind of steady institutional hand that keeps the machinery of justice running when everything else is shaking.

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Name (English)

Dana Boente

Name (Japanese)

デイナ・ジェイムズ・ベンテイ

Reading

でいな・じぇいむず・べんてい

Born

February 7, 1954 (age 72)

Origin

Illinois, United States

Occupation

lawyer / businessperson

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Horse

University

Saint Louis University School of Law

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Boente
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17989631

Tags

• Illinois
• lawyer
• businessperson

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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