Here Are All the Rumored Potential Replacements for Eric Holder

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6. Granholm, Napolitano, Patrick, and Whitehouse are all lawyers

D'oh

Granholm ... earned a juris doctor degree at Harvard Law School, also with honors. At Harvard Law School, Granholm served as Editor-in-Chief for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the leading progressive law journal in the United States.

She clerked for Judge Damon Keith, a Senior Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In 1990 she became an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. In 1994 she was appointed to the Wayne County Corporation Counsel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Granholm

Napolitano ... received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Virginia School of Law. After law school she served as a law clerk for Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then joined Schroeder's former firm, Lewis and Roca located in Phoenix.[11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Napolitano

While in law school, Patrick was elected president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, where he first worked defending poor families in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

Patrick graduated from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor cum laude[9] in 1982. He proceeded to fail the State Bar of California exam twice but ended up passing the California bar on his third try.[10] Patrick then served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for one year. In 1983, he joined the staff of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), where he worked on death penalty and voting rights cases.[8] While at LDF, he met Bill Clinton, the then Governor of Arkansas, when he sued Clinton in a voting case.[11] In 1986, he joined the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow and was named partner in 1990, at the age of 34

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deval_Patrick


Whitehouse received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1982.

Whitehouse worked as a clerk for Judge Richard F. Neely of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia from 1982 to 1983. He also worked in the Rhode Island Attorney General's office as a special assistant attorney general from 1985 to 1990, chief of the Regulatory Unit (which oversaw utilities) from 1988 to 1990, and also an assistant attorney general from 1989 to 1990.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Whitehouse

Jeter, it's true, is not a lawyer.