The US Senate on
thursday confirmed Loretta Lynch as the nation's first black female
attorney general, after a highly politicized five-month delay.
She'll be taking over from outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder.
55-Year-Old
Lynch has served twice as US Attorney for the Eastern District of New
York, with sterling records as a relentless federal prosecutor putting
mobsters and terror suspects behind bars.
The
daughter of a North Carolina Baptist minister father and a librarian
mother, Lynch has been fascinated with the legal system since she was a
child, she attended Harvard College and then Harvard Law School.
Loretta
Lynch's father, Lorenzo A. Lynch, was in the Senate gallery watching
when the historic vote took place confirming his daughter as the first
African American female attorney general.
Hours
before the vote, Senator Ted Cruz attacked Lynch as unfit for the
position and "unwilling to impose any limits whatsoever on the authority
of the president of the United States."
Despite
urging colleagues to stop Lynch, Cruz, a candidate for president in
2016, was the lone senator not to vote on Lynch's confirmation, she had
votes even from the opposition party.
Source:CNN
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