Eric Holder

When the Department of Justice Hired Eric Holder as a trial attorney in the Public Integrity Section in 1976, fresh out of Columbia Law School, they probably had little idea that he would later serve as the nation’s first African-American Attorney General 33 years later. He served as the 82nd Attorney General from 2009 until 2015, the third-longest tenure in that job in American history. Holder has served in government for more than 30 years, serving as a D.C. Superior Court judge, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and as Deputy Attorney General during the (Bill) Clinton Administration. Holder continues his work on civil and voting rights in the private sector, as a partner at Covington & Burling. Although Holder’s accomplishments are too many to name, he can finally check the coveted Fastcase 50 off his bucket list.