Richard Donoghue is an American attorney and prosecutor who served as the Acting United States Deputy Attorney General from December 2020 to January 2021. Previously, he served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 2018 to 2020. Donoghue was appointed interim U.S. Attorney by Jeff Sessions in January 2018. On December 14, 2020, President Trump announced that Donoghue would become Acting United States Deputy Attorney General on December 24, 2020.