In the late eighties, as many of his colleagues from the Public Integrity Section were cashing in on their white-collar criminal experience, Holder applied to become a Washington, D.C., superior court judge. President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the bench in 1988.

It wasn’t a glamorous position. Holder heard family tragedies and mundane financial disputes, developing, he says, a deeper understanding of the plight of African American men. (That didn’t translate into sympathetic sentences for criminals, though.)

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