After forging her path from N.C. to Brooklyn, Lynch is poised to become attorney general
DURHAM, N.C. — The Rev. Lorenzo Lynch was in his living room here, surrounded by photographs of his daughter, Loretta, when he first heard the news that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was stepping down and she was on the short list of candidates to replace him.
He wasn’t surprised she was being mentioned. All the photographs of her on the wall reflect her success as a federal prosecutor, as do the pile of newspaper and magazine articles he keeps nearby. But, in Lynch’s mind that day, there was no chance she would actually be chosen as the nation’s highest-ranking law enforcement official.
“I probably shouldn’t say this,” said Lynch, smiling, on a recent afternoon. “But I dismissed it. No way.”
Lynch, 82, a retired fourth-generation Baptist minister, had grown up in the segregated South, a place where every aspect of his life was touched by Jim Crow laws, where a minister driving to other states to preach could not stop and use the bathroom.
“You were never judged on the merit,” Lynch said. “There were no black police, no black judges, no black bankers or even clerks in the stores.”
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