An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House. Eric Holder serves as Chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. Holder is an internationally recognized leader on a broad range of legal issues and a staunch advocate for civil rights. He served in the Obama Administration as attorney general of the United States from February 2009 to April 2015, the third-longest-serving Attorney General in U.S. history and the first African American to hold that office.