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. (Photo by Olivier Douliery, Pool/Getty Images)
Dec 03, 2015 · “During her four-and-a-half years as U.S. Attorney, Lynch developed a close relationship with Attorney General Eric Holder. In early 2013, she was named chair of Holder’s advisory committee, and she collaborated with the AG in a high-profile Justice Department investigation that ultimately (in July 2014) forced Citigroup to pay a $7 billion fine for having …
Aug 24, 2017 · Attorney General: Loretta E. Lynch. 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 ...
Feb 17, 2022 · The National Football League has hired Loretta Lynch, the former US attorney general under President Barack Obama, to defend it against the race discrimination suit filed by ex-Miami Dolphins ...
Feb 19, 2022 · The NFL hired former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to defend itself in the race discrimination case filed by former Miami Dolphins …
Loretta is currently representing the McDonald's Corporation in three high-profile racial discrimination lawsuits. She also counsels a number of prominent companies on ESG-related matters. Loretta is also frequently retained for high-profile public advisory roles. She was appointed as a Special Advisor to the N.Y.
Nomination. 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.
Eric HolderOfficial portrait, 200982nd United States Attorney GeneralIn office February 3, 2009 – April 27, 2015PresidentBarack Obama31 more rows
Greensboro, North CarolinaLoretta Lynch was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. The family relocated to Durham when she was six years old. Her parents experienced the injustices of racial segregation. Surviving the Jim Crow South shaped how they raised their three children.Mar 13, 2020
Sharon MaloneEric H. Holder, Jr. / Wife (m. 1990)
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President Bill Clinton nominated Reno on February 11, 1993, and the Senate confirmed her the following month. She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General and the second-longest serving Attorney General in U.S. history, after William Wirt. Reno was born and raised in Miami, Florida.
Eric HolderEric H. Holder, Jr. / Son
Eric Himpton Holder, SrMiriam HolderEric H. Holder, Jr./Parents
Loretta Lynch, in full Loretta Elizabeth Lynch, (born May 21, 1959, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.), American lawyer who was the first African American woman to serve as U.S. attorney general (2015–17).
The principal duties of the Attorney General are to: Represent the United States in legal matters. Supervise and direct the administration and operation of the offices, boards, divisions, and bureaus that comprise the Department.Oct 8, 2021
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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.