Barack Obama Picks Eric Holder as Attorney General

Eric Holder, Attorney General

President-elect Barack Obama will be choosing Former Clinton Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder for the position of attorney general. Eric Holder is currently being vetted and has indicated that he'll accept the job if it's offered. If this report is true, Eric Holder will be the first African-American to lead the Justice Department.



Eric Holder, 57, co-chaired President-elect Obama's vice presidential selection process. A graduate of Columbia University and former federal prosecutor, he is a partner at the Washington law firm of Covington & Burling.



Eric Holder has been heavily attacked for his part in the Marc Rich pardon, you can read more about it here. Bill Clinton should be held accountable for the Marc Rich pardon, not Eric Holder. Eric Holder is merely a Clinton loyalist and that single incident should not interfere with his career.

A must read on Eric Holder is a Washington Post profile from 1991, when he was a newly-minted judge in the D.C. Superior Court. Here is an excerpt:
Comfortable is not the only feeling he inspires. "He's the judge the most lawyers would like to date," says a public defender, a gleam in her eye. Holder even gets mash notes from jurors. He calls them "my little juror groupies." One woman sent a letter in fine cursive script that closed with the assurance that she found him attractive for himself and did not have "black robe fever." Holder, for the record, is quite happily married to Sharon Malone, administrative chief resident in obstetrics at George Washington University Hospital. --Barron YoungSmith



Erick Holder is already being criticized by the NLPC as Obama's choice of Attnorey General. According to NLPC President Peter Flaherty,

"Holder is not ethically qualified to serve as Attorney General. His track record is not one of independence or objectivity. Instead, he has been guided by politics and self-interest."

NLPC accused the Clinton adminstration of a cover-up. Both Reno and Holder were appointed by Clinton, and Reno owed her job to Hillary. Additionally, the Washington Post reported in January of 1995 that Holder was under consideration by Clinton for appointment to a federal judgeship.
Holder first met Obama at a dinner party in 2004 and said that he was so energized by the Illinois senator's campaign to become America's first black president.

"I think we share a world view," Holder told American Lawyer magazine in a June profile.

Obama "is not defined by his race. He's proud of it, cognizant of the pernicious effect that race has had in our history but not defined by it."



Holder was born in New York City. His father was an immigrant from Barbados who came to the United States when he was a teenager.



Holder majored in American history at Columbia College before earning his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1976.



Holder first joined the Justice Department in the administration of President Jimmy Carter, assigned to the newly formed Public Integrity Section in 1976 straight out of Columbia University Law School.



Eric Holder was nominated by resident Ronald Reagan to be an associate judge at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, where he served for five years.



When Eric Holder left that post and later became the first African-American U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, chosen by President Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton then picked Eric Holder to become deputy attorney general.

Holder's wife, Sharon Malone, is an obstetrician. The couple has three children.




Attorney General Eric Holder



Picture of Bill Clinton shaking hands with Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder.


Eric Holder in 1997 as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia in his Washington office.



In this June 9, 2008 file photo, former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington.


In this June 25, 2008 file photo, Eric Holder walks with Caroline Kennedy on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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Sharon Malone, Eric Holder's Wife


Picture of Sharon Malone, sexy milf

Dr. Sharon Malone is the wife of new U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Sharon Holder was born in Mobile, Alabama, as is quite accomplished as well. Sharon Malone graduated from Harvard University in 1981, and is an OB/GYN physician. Sharon Malone was also cum laude and top of her class. Sharon Malone-Holder was a systems engineer with IBM before deciding to become a doctor. She listens to both Jazz music and Brazilian music, and is a huge Bossa Nova fan. Sharon Malone said that she is an avid tennis player and can be quite competitive.