Loretta E. Lynch is the current United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She has held this position since 2010. She previously held this position from 1999-2001. During her first term as US Attorney Lynch oversaw prosecution of the New York police officers in the Abner Louima

Abner Louima

Abner Louima is a Haitian who was assaulted, brutalized and forcibly sodomized with the handle of a bathroom plunger by New York City police officers after being arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub in 1997....

 case.

Early life and education

Lynch was born in Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city by population in North Carolina and the largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. According to the 2010 U.S...

 in 1959. She received a bachelor's degree

Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...

 from Harvard College

Harvard College

Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...

 in 1981 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...

 in 1984.

Career

Lynch first joined the Eastern District as a staff attorney in 1990. She was the lead prosecutor in the political corruption cases involving the government of Brookhaven, New York

Brookhaven, New York

The Town of Brookhaven is one of the ten towns into which Suffolk County, New York, United States, has been divided. Part of the New York metropolitan area, it is located in central Suffolk County and is the only town in the county that stretches from the North Shore to the South Shore of Long...

.

Lynch served as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from June 1999 to May 2001.

On January 20, 2010, President Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

 nominated Lynch to again serve as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

External links

• Federal Reserve Bank of New York bio