NCNW Supports Loretta Lynch as U.S. Attorney General

NCNW,  it is time to raise our voices again, in support of Loretta Lynch.

On November 8, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch to replace Eric Holder as the next Attorney General of the United States.  If confirmed, Ms. Lynch will become the first female African American U.S. Attorney General.  Her confirmation delay is unprecedented and unwarranted. The reality is that Ms. Lynch is well-qualified for the position and she should be the next Attorney General of the United States of America.

Ms. Lynch took the oath of office on May 3, 2010 as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. In so doing, she returned to the Office she previously led as United States Attorney from 1999 to 2001 under President William J. Clinton. Today, she oversees all federal criminal and civil investigations and cases in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island as well as Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island. Ms. Lynch has expanded the office's national security practice into the area of cyber security and has also made community outreach a priority. Attorney General Eric Holder appointed Ms. Lynch to the Attorney General's Advisory Committee in 2010, naming her Chair of the Committee in 2013. She also sits on the Department of Justice's Diversity Council.

Ms. Lynch began her career in the Eastern District in 1990, after working as a litigation associate for a leading New York firm. Ms. Lynch served as Chief of the Long Island Office from 1994 to 1998, after serving as the Deputy Chief of General Crimes and as Chief of Intake and Arraignments for the district. While in the Long Island Office she was the lead prosecutor in a series of trials involving allegations of public corruption. Ms. Lynch also served the district as Chief Assistant, where she was a member of the trial team in U.S. v. Volpe, et al., a five week civil rights case involving the sexual assault by uniformed New York City police officers upon Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.

She was a frequent instructor for the Department of Justice in their Criminal Trial Advocacy Program and served as an Adjunct Professor at St. John's University School of Law.

Before returning to the office as United States Attorney in 2010, Ms. Lynch was a partner in the New York office of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

Ms. Lynch received her A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is a charter member of the Xi Tau Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.-one of NCNW's 37 national affiliated organizations.

We, the members of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) support the appointment of Ms. Loretta Elizabeth Lynch as the next Attorney General of the United States of America.

We encourage you to WRITE, CALL, or E-MAIL your U.S. Senators. Contact information for your Senators is provided in the following link. (Senators of the 114th Congress)
Ingrid Saunders Jones
National Chair