Loretta Lynch

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Loretta Lynn Lynch (born May 21, 1959) is an American prosecutor who served as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States from 2015 to 2017.

She was selected by President Barack Obama to replace Eric Holder and served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York under both Presidents Bill Clinton (1999–2001) and Barack Obama (2010–2015).

Lynch, as a federal prosecutor, oversaw federal trials in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Long Island. Lynch, a native of Greensboro, North Carolina, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1984.

She began practicing law in New York and became a federal prosecutor in 1990, rising to the head of the Eastern District office.

She returned to private law before becoming the top district prosecutor once more.

She served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2005. President Barack Obama nominated her to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General on November 8, 2014.

The Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate recommended her confirmation by a 12–8 vote on February 26, 2015, with all Democrats of the committee and three Republicans in favor.

Lynch was confirmed by the Senate by a 56-3 vote on April 23, 2015. Lynch became the second African-American woman and the first African-American woman to be confirmed for the position.

On April 27, 2015, she was sworn in as Attorney General.

When Donald Trump was sworn in as President of the United States on January 20, 2017, her term came to an end.

Early life and education

Lynch was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. Lorine Lynch, a school librarian, and her father, Lorenzo Lynch, a Baptist minister, both graduated from the HBCU Shaw University. On the campus of Shaw University, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was established. She spent hours with her father, attending court hearings in Durham, North Carolina, as an adult. Her early interest in court hearings was piqued after hearing reports about her grandfather, a sharecropper and pastor who in the 1930s helped people flee racial persecution under Jim Crow's at that time. Lynch 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, where she was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. She is a founder of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and was a founding member of the Xi Tau chapter of the sorority while at Harvard. Lynch was given an honorary degree from Duke University in 2017.

Personal life

Lynch married Stephen Hargrove in 2007. Loretta Lynch Hargrove, her husband's name, appears in her personal life. Her husband has two children from a previous marriage.

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Career

Lynch's first work in the legal field was as a litigation associate for Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York City. In 1990, she joined the Eastern District as a heroin and violent crime prosecutor in the US Attorney's office. She served as the head of the Long Island office from 1994 to 1998 and worked on numerous political corruption cases concerning Brookhaven, New York. She served as the chief assistant US Attorney in the Eastern District from 1998 to 1999, and she also managed the Brooklyn office.

She was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1999 to serve as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Lynch oversaw the trial of New York City police officers in the Abner Louima case during her tenure as US Attorney.

Lynch left the US Attorney's office in 2001 to become a Hogan & Hartson partner (later Hogan Lovells). She remained there until January 20, 2010, when President Barack Obama nominated Lynch to again serve as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2005.

Lynch, an unarmed man who died after being detained in a federally prohibited chokehold by a New York City police officer, decided to consult with Garner's family to discuss potential federal responsibility for Garner's death.

Michael Grimm, a Republican congressman, was charged by Lynch's office; arrested Democratic lawmakers Pedro Espada Jr. and William Boyland, Jr.; and was charged with Citigroup over mortgage securities sold by the bank, resulting in a US$7 billion settlement; and was interested in the US$1.2 billion settlement with HSBC over Bank Secrecy Act infringements.

Lynch, the Eastern District of New York, was the US Attorney in charge of the investigation into senior FIFA officials from the start. The probe resulted in the indictment of 14 senior FIFA officials and sports marketing executives just days after Lynch was announced as Attorney General. Lynch was awarded the 3rd annual Golden Blazer by NBC Sports' Men in Blazers for her role in the investigation, which eventually resulted in FIFA President Sepp Blatter's ouster. (Burn's Bob Ley, CBS' Rebecca Lowe, FOX's Rob Stone, and former US women's national team captains and FIFA Women's World Cup champions Julie Foudy and Megan Rapinoe are among the other top winners so far).

Replacing Lynch, Robert Capers was confirmed by the Senate as the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York on December 15, 2015, taking his oath of office on January 4, 2016.

Lynch returned to the private sector in May 2019 and landed in Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She joined Paul Weiss in the firm's litigation department, where she represents individuals, corporations, and corporations of directors in high-stakes litigation, compliance, and investigations.

Lynch had been recruited by the National Football League in December 2020 to help investigate allegations of misconduct among the Washington Football Team's owners, one of the league's member clubs.

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