A. Lee Bentley, III

A. Lee Bentley III
United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida
In office December 16, 2014 – March 10, 2017
President	Barack Obama Donald Trump
Preceded by	Robert E. O'Neill
Personal details
Born	1959 (age 58–59)
Alma mater	University of Georgia (1980) University of Virginia School of Law (J.D.) (1983)

A. Lee Bentley III (born 1959) is an American attorney who was the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida from 2014 until 2017.

Bentley was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, graduated from the University of Georgia, and earned his juris doctor degree in 1983 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was Order of the Coif and an editor of the Virginia Law Review.

Following law school, Bentley clerked for Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. in the 1984 Term, and for U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Chief Judge Clement Haynsworth.

Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney's Office in 2000, Bentley spent 10 years in private practice with Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C. and was Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel with the U.S. Department of Justice.

In 2000, Bentley joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida. In July 2013 when U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill resigned to take a position in the private sector with the Freeh Group, Bentley became the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida. He was formally nominated by President Barack Obama in June 2014 on the bi-partisan recommendation of Florida's U.S. Senators, Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Bill Nelson. Bentley was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 16, 2014.

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