--- title: Kellyanne Conway's Husband To Be Nominated To Head DOJ Civil Division description: Kellyanne Conway's husband will be tapped to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights division, the Wall Street Journal reports. canonical: https://time.com/4705531/george-conway-justice-civil-rights/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-17T17:56:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:54:33.877Z article:section: Politics og:title: Kellyanne Conway's Husband to Be Nominated to Department of Justice Post og:description: He would be involved in defending the Administration from lawsuits. og:url: https://time.com/4705531/george-conway-justice-civil-rights/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc352e21c7ebc8faf/6988bedc7cdbac0147d57856/kellyanne-conway1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer Holds Press Briefing og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kellyanne Conway's Husband to Be Nominated to Department of Justice Post twitter:description: He would be involved in defending the Administration from lawsuits. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc352e21c7ebc8faf/6988bedc7cdbac0147d57856/kellyanne-conway1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kellyanne Conway's Husband to Be Nominated to Department of Justice Post  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Mar 17, 2017 5:56 PM UTC  White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway enters the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House prior to a White House daily briefing on March 14, 2017. White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway enters the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House prior to a White House daily briefing on March 14, 2017.Alex Wong—Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Mar 17, 2017 5:56 PM UTC Kellyanne Conway’s husband will be tapped to lead the Justice Department’s civil division, [the Wall Street _Journal_ reports](https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-adviser-kellyanne-conways-husband-is-set-to-lead-justice-departments-civil-division-1489771204). If confirmed, George Conway would be involved in defending the Trump Administration from lawsuits and fighting for Trump’s immigration executive order, which has recently been blocked by judges in [Hawaii](http://time.com/4703177/donald-trump-travel-ban-immigration-hawaii-judge/?iid=sr-link1) and [Maryland](http://time.com/4703399/trump-revised-travel-ban-blocked-federal-judge-maryland/?iid=sr-link1). Conway, a partner at Wall Street law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz who specializes in securities litigation, did not immediately respond to request for comment. He was previously in the running [to be solicitor general](http://time.com/4648756/donald-trump-solicitor-general-supreme-court/?iid=sr-link1). At the time, Lewis Liman, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP who has known Conway since they were classmates at Yale Law School, told TIME that Conway’s background dovetails with the ethos of the Trump Administration. “I think he would be able to talk the same language as the business lawyers \[and\] the people the Administration is populating Washington with,” Liman said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4705531/george-conway-justice-civil-rights/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4705531/george-conway-justice-civil-rights/"},"headline":"Kellyanne Conway's Husband to Be Nominated to Department of Justice Post","datePublished":"2017-03-17T17:56:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:54:33.877Z","description":"Kellyanne Conway's husband will be tapped to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights division, the Wall Street Journal reports.","url":"https://time.com/4705531/george-conway-justice-civil-rights/","keywords":["justice","White House","Justice Department","Department of Justice","kellyanne conway"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc352e21c7ebc8faf/6988bedc7cdbac0147d57856/kellyanne-conway1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc352e21c7ebc8faf/6988bedc7cdbac0147d57856/kellyanne-conway1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer Holds Press Briefing","caption":"White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer Holds Press Briefing","creditText":"Alex Wong—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/justice/","name":"justice"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4705531/george-conway-justice-civil-rights/","name":"Kellyanne Conway's Husband to Be Nominated to Department of Justice Post"}}]}] ```