Loretta Lynch | |
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Official portrait, 2015 | |
83rd United States Attorney General | |
In office April 27, 2015 – January 20, 2017 | |
President | Barack Obama |
Aug 24, 2017 · Eighty-Third Attorney General, 2015-2017. Loretta E. Lynch was born on May 21, 1959, in Greensboro, North Carolina. She received her A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College in 1981, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1984. In 1990, after a period in private practice, Ms. Lynch joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, …
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Feb 28, 2022 · Attorney General Loretta Lynch is sworn in during a formal investiture ceremony as U.S. President Barack Obama looks on at the Warner Theatre June 17, 2015 in Washington, DC.
Feb 16, 2022 · US Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks during a press conference at the Department of Justice on March 24, 2016, in Washington.
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On November 8, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Lynch for the position of U.S. Attorney General, to succeed Eric Holder, who had previously announced his resignation, pending confirmation of his replacement. She was confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 26, 2015, and approved by the Senate in a 56–43 vote on April 23, thereby becoming the firs…
Lynch was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her mother, Lorine Lynch, a school librarian, and her father, Lorenzo Lynch, a Baptist minister, both graduated from the HBCU Shaw University. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded on the campus of Shaw University. As a child, she spent hours with her father, watching court proceedings in the courthouse of Durham, North Carolina. Her early interest in court proceedings was increased by …
Lynch's first job in the legal field was working as a litigation associate for Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York City. She joined the Eastern District as a drug and violent-crime prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office in 1990. From 1994 to 1998, she served as the chief of the Long Island office and worked on several political corruption cases involving the government of Brookhaven, New York. From 1998 to 1999, she was the chief assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District and headed …
In early March 2016, hackers working with Dutch intelligence had reportedly provided a highly classified Russian government document to the FBI. The document, which had "possible translation issues," had purportedly contained a memorialization of an alleged conversation between Lynch and Amanda Renteria. One of the allegations within the document reportedly said that Renteria had been assured that "Lynch would keep the Clinton investigation from going too …
Lynch married Stephen Hargrove in 2007. She uses her married name, Loretta Lynch Hargrove in her personal life. Her husband has two children from a previous marriage.
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• "BBC Radio 4 - Profile, Loretta Lynch". BBC Online. May 3, 2015. Retrieved May 3, 2015.