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  1. Loretta Elizabeth Lynch (born May 21, 1959) is an American lawyer who served as the 83rd attorney general of the United States from 2015 to 2017. She was appointed by President Barack Obama to succeed Eric Holder and previously served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York under Presidents Bill Clinton (1999–2001), George W. Bush (2001) and Obama (2010–2015).

  2. May 17, 2024 · Loretta Lynch (born May 21, 1959, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.) is an American lawyer who was the first African American woman to serve as U.S. attorney general (2015–17). Lynch’s grandfather, a sharecropper, assisted those seeking to escape punishment under Jim Crow laws, and Lynch later recalled how her father, a fourth-generation ...

  3. Nov 19, 2014 · Related video Loretta Lynch sworn in as attorney general. May 2010 - Is appointed to the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of US Attorneys (AGAC). September 7, 2011 - Becomes vice chair of AGAC.

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  5. May 6, 2015 · 7 May 2015. Reuters. Loretta Lynch is the first black woman to hold the post of US attorney general. By Ed Stourton. Presenter, Profile. On 23 April, after one of the longest confirmation ...

  6. Nov 24, 2022 · 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, located in Brooklyn, the ...

  7. Sep 22, 2020 · Loretta Lynch made history as the nation’s first Black female attorney general, and in the course of her career has tackled everything from soccer and FIFA officials to fraud, terrorism, and ...

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  8. Apr 26, 2015 · The Political Power of the Black Sorority. Loretta Lynch's confirmation as U.S attorney general was a crucial victory for a group of women whose influence is seldom appreciated. By Theodore R ...

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