Attorney General Eric Holder to Speak at Penn's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology Ceremony
WHO: Eric Holder, attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice
WHAT: Ceremony for graduating students in the School of Arts and Sciences Criminology Department
WHERE: St. Mary’s Church, 3916 Locust Walk on the Penn campus
WHEN: Noon, Saturday, May 16
The ceremony, hosted by Penn’s Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, is one of many school and departmental graduation-related events scheduled to be held the weekend before the University’s 253rd Commencement Monday, May 18.
Holder graduated from Columbia Law School in 1976 and joined the Department of Justice. He has served as an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and deputy U.S. attorney general.
NOTE TO REPORTERS AND EDITORS: Contact Jacquie Posey at 215-898-6460 or jposey@upenn.edu for press credentials. DEADLINE: Friday, May 15.
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