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My Take
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.
Overview
Dana James Boente ( Bent-Ë) (born February 7, 1954) is an American attorney who served as General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from January 2018 to June 2020, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from September 2013 to January 2018 and as acting United States Attorney General from January to February 2017.
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1. Profile
- 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)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Horse
- Origin
- Illinois, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- lawyer / businessperson
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Saint Louis University School of Law
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.