Name
| Date of Service | Under which President |
Benjamin H. Bristow
| October 1870 - November 1872 | Grant |
| Samuel F. Phillips | November 1872 - May 1885 | Grant |
| John Goode (Acting) | May 1885 - August 1886 | Cleveland |
| George A. Jenks | July 1886 - May 1889 | Cleveland |
| Orlow W. Chapman | May 1889 - January 1890 | Harrison |
| William Howard Taft | February 1890 - March 1892 | Harrison |
| Charles H. Aldrich | March 1892 - May 1893 | Harrison |
| Lawrence Maxwell, Jr. | April 1893 - January 1895 | Cleveland |
| Holmes Conrad | February 1895 - July 1897 | Cleveland |
| John K. Richards | July 1897 - March 1903 | McKinley |
| Henry M. Hoyt | February 1903 - March 1909 | Roosevelt |
| Lloyd Wheaton Bowers | April 1909 - September 1910 | Taft |
| Frederick W. Lehmann | December 1910 - July 1912 | Taft |
| William Marshall Bullit | July 1912 - March 1913 | Taft |
| John William Davis | August 1913 - November 1918 | Wilson |
| Alexander C. King | November 1918 - May 1920 | Wilson |
| William L. Frierson | June 1920 - June 1921 | Wilson |
| James M. Beck | June 1921 - June 1925 | Harding |
| William D. Mitchell | June 1925 - March 1929 | Coolidge |
| Charles Evans Hughes. | May 1929 - April 1930 | Hoover |
| Thomas D. Thacher | March 1930 - May 1933 | Hoover |
| James Crawford Biggs | May 1933 - March 1935 | Roosevelt |
| Stanley F. Reed | March 1935 - January 1938 | Roosevelt |
| Robert H. Jackson | March 1938 - January 1940 | Roosevelt |
| Francis Biddle | January 1940 - September 1941 | Roosevelt |
| Charles Fahy | November 1941 - September 1945 | Roosevelt |
| J. Howard McGrath | October 1945 - October 1946 | Truman |
| Philip B. Perlman | July 1947 - August 1952 | Truman |
| Walter J. Cummings, Jr. | December 1952 - March 1953 | Truman |
| Simon E. Sobeloff | February 1954 - July 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| J. Lee Rankin | August 1956 - January 1961 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Archibald Cox | January 1961 - July 1965 | John F. Kennedy |
| Thurgood Marshall | August 1965 - August 1967 | Lyndon Johnson |
| Erwin N. Griswold | October 1967 - June 1973 | Lyndon Johnson |
Robert H. Bork
| June 1973 - January 1977 | Richard Nixon |
| Wade H. McCree | March 1977 - August 1981 | Jimmy Carter |
| Rex E. Lee | August 1981 - June 1985 | Ronald Reagan |
| Charles Fried | October 1985 - January 1989 | Ronald Reagan |
| Kenneth W. Starr | May 1989 - January 1993 | George H. W. Bush |
| Drew S. Days, III | May 1993 - July 1996 | Bill Clinton |
| Seth P. Waxman | November 1997 - January 2001 | Bill Clinton |
| Theodore B. Olson | June 2001 - July 2004 | George W. Bush |
| Paul D. Clement (acting) | July 2004 - present | George W. Bush |