Eric Holder and Attorney General
“Eric Holder” and “Attorney General” - “Eric Himpton Holder, Jr.” (born January 21, 1951) is a former Deputy “Attorney General” of the United States and a senior legal advisor to Barack Obama. Eric Holder is married to “Sharon Malone”, an obstetrician; the couple has three children. Holder was born in 1951 in The Bronx, New York, to parents who emigrated from Barbados. Eric Holder was appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia by President Bill Clinton. Clinton nominated Holder to be the next Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno.
Eric Holder was the first Black American to serve in each of those positions. Holder served as Acting Attorney General under President George W. Bush for several weeks until the Senate confirmed Bush’s nominee, John Ashcroft. Eric Holder joined Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign as a senior legal advisor. President-elect Barack Obama selected Eric Holder as his attorney general. As Deputy Attorney General, Holder was, along with Jack Quinn, at the center of the controversial pardon of fugitive “Marc Rich”. Elizabeth Wurtzel on Prozac Nation