To Be Delivered By

Eric H. Holder, Jr.

Former Attorney General of the United States

With Additional Remarks By

Karl A. Racine

Attorney General for the District of Columbia

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The Judge Thomas A. Flannery Lecture Committee is pleased to announce that the Seventh Annual Flannery Lecture will be delivered by Eric H. Holder, Jr., the 82nd Attorney General of the United States. Mr. Holder is the third longest-serving Attorney General in U.S. history and the first African American to hold that office. Including his tenure as Attorney General, Mr. Holder has served more than thirty years in government service, having been appointed to various positions requiring U.S. Senate confirmation by Presidents Obama, Clinton and Reagan. Included among these were service as the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1993 to 1997 and service as an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 1988 to 1993.

We are equally pleased that Karl A. Racine, Attorney General for the District of Columbia, will speak on the state of that office. Attorney General Racine has had a deep and wide-ranging career in public service, having also served as Associate White House Counsel in the Clinton administration and on the District of Columbia’s Judicial Nomination Commission. In private practice, he was managing partner of Venable LLP, managing six hundred attorneys as the first African American managing partner of a top 100 law firm.

The lectures commemorate Judge Flannery’s many contributions to the administration of justice in the District of Columbia. The lecture series was established in 2009 by the Judge’s colleagues, friends and family, along with those who served him as judicial law clerks or Assistant U.S. Attorneys during his tenure as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. In recent years, the Committee has been enhanced by the addition of other members of the bar committed to the perpetuation of this lecture series and the legacy it has established.

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