Obama Picks First African-American Attorney General

November 18, 2008 5:01 p.m. EST

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - President-elect Barack Obama has selected senior campaign legal advisor and Eric Holder to serve as the first African-American Attorney General. Holder, who served as deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration, also served on Obama's vice presidential selection committee which eventually selected Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE).

Holden graduated Columbia University, where he earned a B.A. in 1973 and a J.D. in 1976. Out of college, he took a job at the U.S. Justice Department as a trial attorney.

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