Loretta Lynch Sworn In as Attorney General
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ABC News(WASHINGTON) — After the longest confirmation process in recent U.S. history, Loretta Lynch was sworn in Monday as the 83rd attorney general of the United States.
“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s about time. It’s about time this woman is being sworn in,” Vice President Joe Biden, who presided over the swearing-in ceremony, said.
The Senate confirmed Lynch as the next attorney general last Thursday, 166 days after she was first nominated for the post.
“To the staff of the United States Department of Justice, you’re the best of the best and with Loretta you again have the best of the best as your leader,” Biden said.
Lynch is the first African American woman to hold the position. She said Monday that her story is one of hope.
“If a little girl from North Carolina, who used to tell her grandfather in the fields to lift her up on the back of his mule so she could see way up high granddaddy, can grow up to become the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America, we can do anything,” Lynch said after being sworn in.
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