Holder

Holder, Eric Himpton, Jr., 1951-, U.S. lawyer and government official, b. Queens, N.Y., grad. Columbia (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1976). He was a trial attorney with the U.S. Justice Dept. from 1976 to 1988, when he was appointed a superior court judge for the District of Columbia. In 1993 he returned to the Justice Dept. as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, becoming the first African American to serve in that position. He subsequently served as deputy attorney general (1997-2001) under Janet Reno and was briefly acting U.S. attorney general (2001). In private practice from 2001, he was nominated to be U.S. attorney general in 2009 by President Barack Obama; Holder is the first African American to be named to the post.

Holder (postcode 2611) is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia located in the district of Weston Creek.

Holder was gazetted in 1970 and was named after Sir Frederick William Holder (1850-1909), Premier of South Australia between 1899 and 1901 and first Speaker of the House of Representatives, between 1901 and 1909. The theme for the street names in Holder is surveyors (ACTPLA, 2003).

Geology

Beneath Holder are Deakin Volcanics green grey and purple rhyodacite mostly. A band of pink and green rhyolitic intrusive porphyry is on south and south west side.

Churches

• St Jude(Catholic church)

External links

References

• ACT Planning & Land Authority (2003) Search: origins and meanings of Canberra’s suburb and street names Retrieved 2 Oct. 2005.