Nov 24, 2022 · Eric H. Holder, Jr., was born on January 21, 1951, in the Bronx, New York. He attended public schools, graduating from Stuyvesant High School, where he earned a Regents Scholarship. He attended Columbia College as an American History major, graduating in 1973.

Jan 17, 2025 · Eric Holder, American lawyer who was the first African American to serve as U.S. attorney general (2009–15). In 2012, during an investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, he became the first sitting member of a cabinet to be cited for contempt of Congress.

Eric H. Holder, Jr. serves as Chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. Mr. Holder is an internationally recognized leader on a broad range of legal issues and a staunch advocate for civil rights.

Feb 29, 2024 · Eric H. Holder Jr. was the 29th Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He served as the Department’s second-ranking official from July 1997 to January 2001. Mr. Holder was the first African American to become Deputy Attorney General.

Dec 17, 2004 · During his five years on the bench, he presided over hundreds of civil and criminal trials. In 1993, Holder was nominated by President Bill Clinton to serve as the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., becoming the first African American to serve in that position.

As the third longest serving Attorney General in U.S. history and the first African American to hold that office, Eric is an internationally recognized leader across a broad range of regulatory enforcement, criminal justice, and national security issues.

Jan 18, 2009 · Eric H. Holder, Jr., U.S. Attorney General since 2009, was born on January 21, 1951 in the Bronx, New York to parents of Barbadian descent, Eric, a real estate agent and Miriam Holder, a telephone operator.

Nov 4, 2024 · When Eric H. Holder, Jr. CC ’73 LAW ’76 was stepping down after more than six years as the nation’s first Black Attorney General, he and then-President Barack Obama had a conversation about the obstacles that had bedeviled the administration.

Eric H. Holder Jr., currently advising clients at Covington, specializes in complex investigations and litigation, particularly on international issues with regulatory enforcement and reputational concerns.

Sep 25, 2014 · Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., the first African American to fill the nation’s top law enforcement post, announced Thursday he was stepping down, ending a nearly six-year tenure as one of the...