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Former AG Eric Holder to deliver UW commencement speech

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FILE - President Barack Obama, right, hugs outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, at an event celebrating Holder at the Department of Justice in Washington, Friday, Feb. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Attorney General Eric Holder is set to give the spring commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the university announced this week.

Holder will give the address during the spring commencement ceremony at Camp Randall Stadium on May 13.

He served as attorney general from February 2009 to April 2015, and was the first Black person to hold the office.

Holder was the keynote speaker for the 2016 UW Law School hooding ceremony. His daughter, Brooke, graduated from UW-Madison in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in history.

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  1. Richard

    April 23, 2023 at 5:35 am

    More of the democrat party narrative of hate, lies, misinformation and hypocrisy tibe heard by the students… Holder is the worst example of someone in law…the school should be ashamed for inviting him, but than again the school is being run by liberals where honor and high unbiased standards no loner apply.

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