U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. will announce his resignation Thursday multiple media outlets are reporting.
Sources familiar with the decision said Mr. Holder 63 intends to leave the Department of Justice as soon as his successor is confirmed a process that could last until next year NPR first reported.
Mr. Holder has been discussing plans to step down with the president for several months but finalized the plans earlier this month a Justice Department source told ABC News.
The attorney general plans to express his personal gratitude to the president for the opportunity to serve in his administration and to lead the Justice Department which he will call the greatest honor of my professional life" the source told ABC News.
A former U.S. government
official said Mr. Holder had become increasingly adamant" about his desire to resign in order to avoid serving out the rest of President Obamas second term NPR reported.
Mr. Holder is currently the fourth-longest tenured attorney general in history.
