Pine Bluff, Ark. (September 4, 2018)  –   Loretta Lynch, the 83rd Attorney General of the United States (2015-2017), will be speaking at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) Thursday, September 6. The free, public event will be held at 11:00 a.m. in the J.M. Ross theatre of the Hathaway-Howard Fine Arts Building.

One of the most highly accomplished public figures in America today, former Attorney General Lynch has been a leading progressive voice during her 30-year highly distinguished career.

The first female African American Attorney General of the United States, Lynch was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2015.   She also served as the head of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York twice, under both President Clinton and President Obama.  Described by President Obama as “the only lawyer in America who battles mobsters, drug lords and terrorists, and still has the reputation for being a charming ‘people person,” she has been instrumental in shaping the direction of the nation on a number of tough issues. She improved the relationship between local law enforcement and the communities they serve, and she has taken bold stances on criminal justice reform.

Lynch has spent years in the trenches rising through the ranks as a prosecutor, aggressively fighting terrorism, financial fraud and cybercrime — all while vigorously defending civil and human rights.

While leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Lynch became known for the high-profile civil rights conviction of two Brooklyn police officers who brutally assaulted Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. While in private practice, Lynch served as a volunteer legal advisor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, an organization she established to prosecute those responsible for human rights violations in the 1994 genocide in that nation.

Born in Greensboro, NC and the daughter of a school librarian and fourth generation Baptist minister, Lynch was also inspired by stories about her grandfather, a sharecropper in the 1930s, who helped members of his community who had no recourse under the Jim Crow system.

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