Photos: Atty. Gen. Eric Holder to resign

President Obama and Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. embrace. Obama said Holder would remain in office until his successor was installed.   (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)

Atty. Gen. Eric H,. Holder Jr. attends a memorial service at the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, D.C., on the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.  (Win McNamee / Getty Images)

Atty. Gen. Eric Holder is interviewed by the Associated Press at the Justice Department in Washington on Sept. 16.  (Susan Walsh / Associated Press)

President Obama meets with Atty. Gen. Eric Holder in the Oval Office on Aug. 18 regarding the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.  (Charles Dharapak / Associated Press)

Atty. Gen. Eric Holder is sworn in on Capitol Hill in 2012 before testifying about Operation Fast and Furious.

Atty. Gen. Eric Holder, right, looks at a phone with Assistant Atty. Gen. Ronald Weich in 2011 during a break in a hearing on Operation Fast and Furious.

Eric Holder is sworn in as U.S. attorney general by Vice President Joe Biden in February 2009 as Holder’s wife, Sharon, holds the Bible used in the ceremony.   (Paul J. Richards / AFP/Getty Images)

After being nominated to be attorney general, Eric Holder, left, poses for a photo with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Capitol Hill in December 2008.  (Chris Kleponis / AFP/Getty Images)

Flanked by President-elect Obama and then-New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Eric Holder speaks at a news conference in Chicago in December 2008 after Obama nominated him to be attorney general.  (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

President Clinton with then-Deputy Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and Atty. Gen. Janet Reno at the White House in 1999. (For the record: An earlier version of this caption said the photo was from 2008.)  (Ron Edmonds / Associated Press)