Harmeet Dhillon leaves Trump Justice Department after 19 months

San Francisco Chronicle · Aidin Vaziri, Raheem Hosseini · 2026-11-05 17:47 UTC

San Francisco attorney Harmeet Dhillon has resigned from the Trump administration after leading the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.

Harmeet Dhillon, the prominent Republican attorney who led the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to become an anti-DEI defender of white Christian values under President Donald Trump, has resigned from her post.

A longtime San Francisco lawyer, Dhillon said she made the decision weeks before Tuesday’s midterm elections, telling Fox News that she informed White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles that she wanted to leave and return to private practice.

Her departure comes two days after Democrats ripped control of both chambers of Congress from a decimated Republican Party and a historically unpopular president.

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