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| L-R: Vice President Joe Biden, Rev. Lorenzo Lynch, husband Stephen Hargrove and U. S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch |
Loretta Elizabeth Lynch (born May 21, 1959) is the 83rd and current Attorney General of the United States. She is 55 years old and recently served as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
She was sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden on April 27, 2015 in the presence of her husband, father and brother from her family. She was also before an audience of Justice Department staff and well-wishers.
Vice President Joe Biden opening statement, "Ladies and gentlemen, it's about time — it's about time this woman is being sworn in."
His remarks reference over 5 months of wait. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on November 4, 2014.
She is the 1st African American female U. S. Attorney General.
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Loretta Lynch was born on May 21, 1959 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her mother was a school librarian and her father was a Baptist minister. 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 compounded by stories of her grandfather, a sharecropper and pastor, who in the 1930s helped people move to the north to escape prosecutions under the racist Jim Crow laws of the time.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and American literature from Harvard College in 1981 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1984. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., a chartering member of the Xi Tau chapter of the sorority while at Harvard. Wikipedia
"We are proud of and for her." "We wish her a successful reign with connection-after-connection of successes that are domestic and international for our embroiled country," said Mary Glass, MPA LLC.
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