10 Things You Didn’t Know About Eric Holder
Holder is reportedly being vetted to be President-elect Obama's attorney general
Clarification: Eric Holder graduated from Columbia College, which is part of Columbia University.
1. Eric Holder's father emigrated from Barbados when he was about 12, ending up in Queens, N.Y., where Eric Jr. was born and raised. Eric Sr. joined the Army during World War II and later became a real estate broker.
2. The young Eric Holder attended the highly regarded Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, where he played basketball and earned a Regents scholarship.
3. He has always had a love for basketball and fantasized about becoming a professional player like Washington Bullets star Jeff Malone, who is his wife's nephew.
4. Holder graduated in 1973 from Columbia College, majoring in American history. He was immediately accepted into Columbia Law School, where he graduated in 1976.
5. While attending Columbia, Holder spent time in his Harlem neighborhood helping kids at the youth center. He joined the Concerned Black Men, beginning his lifelong role mentoring youth.
6. After graduating from law school, Holder got a job at the Justice Department, where he joined the Public Integrity Unit. One of the high-profile cases Holder helped prosecute was the "Abscam" corruption case involving then South Carolina Rep. John Jenrette.
7. In 1989, Holder met his wife to be, Sharon Malone, at a fundraiser for Concerned Black Men and the Coalition of 100 Black Women. She is an obstetrician-gynecologist and a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Medical School. They have three children.
8. While in private practice as an attorney at Covington & Burling, Holder represented the National Football League in its investigation of dog-fighting charges against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick.
9. Legal Times chose him as one of the "Greatest Washington Lawyers of the Past 30 Years."
10. In 1997, Eric Holder became the highest-ranking black American law enforcement official in U.S. history when he was confirmed as deputy attorney general to Janet Reno in 1997. Previously, he was the first black ever to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. If nominated and confirmed, he would be the first black U.S. attorney general.
Sources:
- Covington & Burling profile
- Columbia University
- Washington Post 12/21/1996
- Washingtonian October 2005
Reader Comments
Barach Hussein Obama
I'm not a raciest. Hussein would not be in office now if not for the white man. I would have voted for Colen Powell before I would have voted for Al Gore or John Carey. I never vote party and those that do are political uninformed. Hussein said before the election to judge him by the people that surrounds me. I did and that is why Hussein did not get my vote. I have not change my mind as the people around him are elitist. Most are pro-choice, want our guns, take more of our money and give more away to others. Hussein is a wolf in sheeps clothing. If you look at what is going on one can only see a socialist genda coming.
Hussein tries to act middle of the road but Hussein is so far left that no one can get of his left. He is pro-choice willing to suck the brains out of a full term fetus, would like to see all the guns take away from all of us, take over the health care system, cap and trade will cost all of us many dollars and we will be left with Hussein's change.
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This nation has been on a path to hell since this goverment started taking Christ out of goverment which it was founded on.
Bush
WANG is WONG...George Bush was one of best Presidents of the last 50 years. He made a few mistakes...like trying to reach across the aisle to the looney left. He was too gullible. Even working with the Pig Teddy K. didn't get him accolades. Teddy just turned around behind Bushes back and demonized him. Two faced hypocrite. Bush was always good for his word. The stock market under Bush exploded ...almost doubled...and he kept unemployment at around 4%. Just compare this Barak's already dismile record. NOOOO WANG...you're WONG
torture
dear sir i dont think any one will contact me because ive gone to the r party and there wasent any results a person can talk of how they arent taut well and then that is the headline story you want to investigate torture on prisoners why isent there an investigation on medical malpractise on veterans you hear about it one week then its washed under the rug my career was ended in the military because of a mistake a doctor made being a activated reservist with 10 yrs active and 15 res i cant draw a retirement till im 60 but if i was active with 2 yrs and disabled in service they would take time in serv times 2.5 that would be my retirement plus va where is the justice in that i served my country proudley for 25 years to find out my country turned its back on me my name is david bowers as it is know im changing to independent every one talks about the rights a prisoner of war has where are the americans rights unstead of apolagising to the countryies we have been to war with why not apolagise to the veterans for the way we are being treated
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