--- title: LIVE: Obama Announces Eric Holder Retirement description: Will step down once a successor has been confirmed canonical: https://time.com/3430904/obama-eric-holder-announcement/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-25T20:29:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:25:34.417Z article:section: Politics og:title: LIVE: Obama Announces Eric Holder Retirement og:description: Will step down once a successor has been confirmed og:url: https://time.com/3430904/obama-eric-holder-announcement/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6db13d244b0c2f0/6986a58006f2c1ccb2330f1c/e43c75c0b45f4e4b9d6dc070450ae3e0-0.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Barack Obama, Eric Holder og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: LIVE: Obama Announces Eric Holder Retirement twitter:description: Will step down once a successor has been confirmed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6db13d244b0c2f0/6986a58006f2c1ccb2330f1c/e43c75c0b45f4e4b9d6dc070450ae3e0-0.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # LIVE: Obama Announces Eric Holder Retirement by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Sep 25, 2014 8:29 PM UTC  President Barack Obama, accompanied by Attorney General Eric Holder, speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, to announce Holder is resigning. President Barack Obama, accompanied by Attorney General Eric Holder, speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, to announce Holder is resigning.Evan Vucci—AP by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Sep 25, 2014 8:29 PM UTC President Obama was expected to announce the impending retirement of Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday afternoon. Justice Department officials confirmed earlier in the day that the country’s first black attorney general would step down once a successor has been confirmed. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3430904/obama-eric-holder-announcement/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3430904/obama-eric-holder-announcement/"},"headline":"LIVE: Obama Announces Eric Holder Retirement","datePublished":"2014-09-25T20:29:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:25:34.417Z","description":"Will step down once a successor has been confirmed","url":"https://time.com/3430904/obama-eric-holder-announcement/","keywords":["justice"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6db13d244b0c2f0/6986a58006f2c1ccb2330f1c/e43c75c0b45f4e4b9d6dc070450ae3e0-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6db13d244b0c2f0/6986a58006f2c1ccb2330f1c/e43c75c0b45f4e4b9d6dc070450ae3e0-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Barack Obama, Eric Holder","caption":"Barack Obama, Eric Holder","creditText":"Evan Vucci—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3430904/obama-eric-holder-announcement/","name":"LIVE: Obama Announces Eric Holder Retirement"}}]}] ```