# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dana-boente
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:34:19.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dana-boente"
name: "Dana Boente"
slug: "dana-boente"
description: "Dana James Boente ( Bent-Ë) 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. He also served as acting assistant attorney general for the National Security Division of the United States Department of Justice. On October 27, 2017, Boente announced he would resign from the Department of Justice after a successor is in place. On January 23, 2018, Boente was named General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by the director, Christopher A. Wray, filling the vacancy after James Baker's reassignment to another part of the bureau."
tagline: "American lawyer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dana_Boente.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1954-02-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.4
  momentum:             15.68773234200743
  historical:           9.6207
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dana Boente"
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    title: "Dana Boente"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dana J. Boente"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump