Former Attorney General
Eric Holder
82nd Attorney General of the United States; Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP; Chairman, National Democratic Redistricting Committee
The Honorable Eric Holder, the 82nd Attorney General of the United States from 2009 to 2015, was the third-longest-serving Attorney General in U.S. history and the first African American to hold that office. Honorable Holder is an internationally recognized leader across a broad range of regulatory enforcement and criminal justice issues, including the prosecution of human traffickers. Appointed to various positions requiring U.S. Senate confirmation by Presidents Obama, Clinton, and Reagan, Honorable Holder served in government for more than 30 years. Today, he is Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP, which he rejoined in 2015 after leaving the Department of Justice. He is also Chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
“It is almost unfathomable, to consider that—150 years since President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation; more than six decades after the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights prohibited the practice of slavery; and more than 15 years since the landmark Trafficking Victims Protection Act became law—today, in communities across and beyond this country, slavery not only persists but does so in greater numbers than at any other time in human history.”