Birth place: Greensboro, North Carolina
Birth name: Loretta Elizabeth Lynch
Father: Lorenzo Lynch, Baptist minister
Mother: Lorine (Harris) Lynch, school librarian
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April 2014 – Lynch’s office indicts Congressman Michael Grimm (R-New York) for fraud.
November 8, 2014 – Obama nominates Lynch to be the next U.S. Attorney General.
December 3, 2014 – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces that the Justice Department will lead a civil rights investigation into the death of Eric Garner in New York. Lynch will lead the investigation.
January 28-29, 2015 – Lynch’s confirmation hearing for the U.S. Attorney General position is held.
