Emily Griffin

Associate Justice Emily Griffin is an American attorney, socialite, jurist, politician and former law enforcement official. She is currently the newest member of the US Supreme Court replacing retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on August 3rd, 2024. She is the former Deputy Attorney General of the United States, Director of the FBI, Solicitor General of the United States, and Deputy Administrator of the DEA. A member of the Republican party, Griffin first got into politics when she was nominated to become Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the age of 27. She later would go on to become FBI Director at the age of 34 making her the first female FBI Director. She is the youngest member of the Supreme Court and also the youngest woman ever appointed.

Early Life
Born Emily Eleanor Lawson to Gregory Lawson a soldier and politician and Sacha Marie Lawson, a lawyer who's Russian parents immigrated to America, she is the eldest of her two full siblings, Colton Lawson and Meghan Lawson, however her half sibling, Leroy Lawson is seven years older than her. She attended St. John’s Public School in Atlanta, and later Hayes High School, where she graduated valedictorian of her class. She later attended University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, while there she studied her bachelor’s of arts in international relations. She later attended Harvard Law School, where she graduated summa cum laude with her juris doctor. Griffin can speak Russian and English fluently as well as ASL.

FBI Director
After the death of Geoff Hilliers, 3 weeks into his 10 year term as FBI Director he was killed in the Las Vegas Strip Bombings, Griffin was considered as a replacement for him. She was added to the shortlist along with Len Rhodes, Thomas Grey, Louise Grain, Michael Waters,  Mike Rogers, Ray Kelly, Carolyn Saviss and Paul Abbate, however the decision came down to Vice President Kamala Harris, Harris picked Griffin because of her exceptional devotion to her career, and her accomplishments. Griffin first testified at the Senate Confirmation Hearing on March 25th and she was finally appointed on April 6th. Her first acts as FBI Director were investigating The Group of Fifty, and the terrorist attacks they committed as well as reorganization of the FBI to remove corrupt, conspiring and inept agents. She hired lawyer Madison Payne, to be her Chief of Staff and assist her with this. Over 70 agents were dismissed and 7 were later charged all within her first month.

Group of Fifty
Griffin’s first while of her term as FBI Director was hunting down and bringing to justice the terrorist organization, dubbed the Group of Fifty by FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge, Thomas Grey during his press conference. They were responsible for the 2021 Terrorist Attacks. Griffin famously said during her first press conference, “They attacked the United States, they should expect a ‘United Front’ to come for them. We are the United States, we need to unite today to defeat our enemies tomorrow.” Her speeches were influential to boosting morale in the country after several terrorist attacks across the country.

Before Griffin had become Director, several members of the Group were arrested for attacks that they carried out, the highest ranking member, Tybek Ossaud, a senior advisor was killed during an attempted attack on the New York City FBI Field Office.

Allegations of Nepotism
Griffin often worked with her husband, Special Agent Arthur Griffin, during her term in the FBI it was believed by several of her confidants that she was giving him an unfair advantage over other staff, in the course of his three year career at the FBI, two years of which Emily Griffin was director, he was given a 40% salary raise, and was promoted twice prematurely. All of this despite 5 complaints levied against him by staff. An FBI Investigative Specialist claimed that Arthur was a poor supervisor, and communicator, and nearly destroyed a surveillance operation by attempting to detain the individuals under surveillance. Another complaint was made against him by his direct supervisor Special Agent Elise Greene, Greene claimed that he often refused orders and ignored requests. Three other employees working along side him also made similar allegations, all of which were ignored.

A file directed to the Office of Professional Responsibility outlining an improper character complaint against Agent Griffin disappeared after being filed, and all archives regarding the incident were wiped by order of the director. This led to a complaint being made by Special Agent Mark Carlisle to the Department of Justice. The complaint said that Director Emily Griffin was fostering an environment of nepotism and removing her husband from any disciplinary action that would potentially be levied against him. The FBI Ombudsman investigated the claim, however Director Griffin’s office had explanations for all incidents and the investigation ended with no action.

Resignation
After the opening of Project Tache, the investigation into the Harris Administration and impeachment inquiry of Vice President Makaela Raffel, Griffin abruptly announced her resignation as FBI Director on April 29th, 2023, she stated that she would stay until the next Director was selected. When asked by the press about her resignation she failed to comment. On June 9th, 2023 she announced that she had been nominated to become Solicitor General of the United States by President David Stewart.

Solicitor General
On July 18th, Griffin took up the position of Solicitor General after over a month long nomination process. Her first case was Hawkins vs The U.S. Federal Government, a case surrounding the 5th amendment rights of Americans.

Deputy Attorney General
In early January, of 2024, John Bosherman, Deputy Attorney General of the United States resigned. Bosherman was appointed by President Kamala Harris in March of 2023, he served into David Stewart’s administration, however when Steve Louvak came into office, Bosherman resigned because he disagreed with Louvak’s politics. Because of this, Emily Griffin was nominated to succeed him. She took up the office of Deputy Attorney General on February 9th, of 2024. About a month and a half after she was appointed, Griffin started representing Charlotte Hawthorne when she was being subpoenaed by the Department of Homeland Security for documents relating to her backchanneling information to the Russians on orders of former Attorney General Ian Blackish. She was replaced by former Attorney General of Michigan and US Representative, Keliane Charleston.