Reading Room Document

Resignation of the Head of a Department Effective Only Upon the Confirmation and Appointment of a Successor

Presidential Appointees—Resignation Subject to the Appointment and Qualification of a Successor The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/21926/download.

April 12, 1979