Michael B. Mukasey Michael B. Mukasey is the United States Attorney General . He is a former judge who was appointed to the federal bench by President Reagan, and he retired after serving as the chief judge of the U.S. District court in the Southern District of New York. Mukasey was a conservative judge who has presided over previous terrorism trials, including the 1993 trial of the blind shiek, Omar Abdel Rahman. dkosopedia