Will America have its first black female Attorney General?

(Baonghean) - On Saturday, November 8, Barack Obama officially announced his decision to appoint Loretta Lynch - New York Attorney General to the position of Attorney General. This decision will be considered by Congress.

If confirmed, Loretta Lynch would become the first black woman to serve as US Attorney General. Her predecessor, Eric Holder, was the first black man to hold the position. He was nominated in 2008 and resigned on September 25. Born in 1959 in Greensboro, North Carolina, to a librarian mother and a Baptist minister father, Lynch was described by the White House as a "strong and independent" prosecutor.

Loretta Lynch - Obama's pick to hold the balance of justice.

Lynch has been a federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York since 2010, a position she held from 1999 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. She oversees criminal cases in Brooklyn, Staten Islands, Queens and Long Islands. Her passion for the profession was developed as a child while spending hours in courtrooms. "I realized how important the power of the law is to people's lives and how important it is to be neutral and impartial," she wrote in a professional journal in 2007. She recently led an investigation into Staten Islands Republican Representative Michael Grimm, who is suspected of tax evasion.

Alan Vinegrad, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said of Lynch in the Wall Street Journal: "A very private and thoughtful person, really smart, aggressive and charming, she can also be very tough when necessary, such as in the courtroom." In 2010, Eric Holder nominated Lynch to the Attorney General's Advisory Committee. In 2013, Lynch became the chair of the committee and also served on the department's Diversity Committee. Close to Eric Holder, she has been hailed by supporters as a "champion of civil rights," but has been criticized by Republicans in Congress. Democrats will likely seek to have Lynch's nomination confirmed before Congress's full power falls to Republicans in January 2015.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican, said he was "very excited to meet this nominee," noting that "it's very rare for a prosecutor to be promoted directly to Attorney General."

Ganoderma(According to Le Monde)