As of today, Loretta Lynch has made major history. The US Senate confirmed Lynch, in a 56-43 vote, as the nation’s first black female attorney general. With President Barack Obama’s 21 months left of his term, Lynch is now the top law enforcement official for the President’s remaining days in office.

U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch infront of Prospect Heights Brooklyn home on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, when she was announced as Obama's choice for attorney general. Photo Credit: Uli Seit -NEWSDAY
U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch in front of Prospect Heights Brooklyn home on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, when she was announced as Obama’s choice for attorney general. Photo Credit: Uli Seit -NEWSDAY

“Today, the Senate finally confirmed Loretta Lynch to be America’s next attorney general – and America will be better off for it,” President Obama said in a statement.

Lynch, 55, now the former US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (which covers Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and parts of Long Island), will be replacing outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder. President Barack Obama nominated Lynch as the successor to Eric Holder back in November. Today’s final decision comes more than 50 days after the president’s nomination — longer than the past seven attorneys general.

“I have known and worked closely with Loretta for many years, and I know that she will continue the vital work that this Administration has set in motion and leave her own innovative mark on the Department in which we have both been privileged to serve,” Holder said in a statement. “I am confident that Loretta will be an outstanding Attorney General, a dedicated guardian of the Constitution, and a devoted champion of all those whom the law protects and empowers.”

Today is finally the day for Loretta Lynch and while we are all excited to see this Brooklyn resident head to Washington, we should all get to know her just a little more. Here’s a rundown of 7 things we know for sure about our new Attorney General, Loretta Lynch.

She’s actually from North Carolina, NOT Brooklyn

While this is an amazing time for Brooklynites to see one of their longtime Prospect-Heights resident get such a prestigious seat in the White House, we must come to the realization that she’s not actually from here. Lynch was born in North Carolina and raised by her mother who was a school librarian and her father, a fourth-generation Baptist minister.

She was paired with a white student in high-school so she wouldn’t be the only black valedictorian

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Back in 1977, while Lynch was the top performer of her senior class at Durham High School, administrators feared backlash of having a lone black valedictorian. Members of the school staff asked her to share the honor with two others, one being a white student.

She graduated from Harvard Law School

Guess Loretta Lynch has more in common with the President and First Lady Michelle Obama as they all are Harvard Law school graduates.

 She helped prosecute cop responsible for the Abner Louima police brutality case

Amongst being one of the most aggressive and powerful US Attorneys, she’s known for playing a role in a slew of hard cases. She prosecuted public corruption cases in Brookhaven Town in the 1990s. Lynch has also filed tax evasion charges against Rep. Michael Grimm of Staten Island accusing him of hiding more than $1 million in sales and wages from his Manhattan health food restaurant. But most famous of them all, Loretta Lynch helped get a high profile conviction for the New York police officer who sexually assaulted Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant, with a broom handle back in 1997.

She’s a soror — Delta Sigma Theta

In a funny case of events, Lynch is actually sorority sisters with Eric Holder’s wife, Sharon Malone. They both founded Harvard College’s first black sorority chapter of Delta Sigma Theta back in 1980.

She’s currently supervises 170 lawyers in Brooklyn

Loretta Lynch the first U.S. attorney to become attorney general since William Wirt, who was attorney general under President James Monroe in 1817. At her office in Brooklyn she will go from supervising 170 lawyers to Washington where she will oversee around 116,000 full-time employees.

Presidents seem to love her and her work

President Obama is not the only President to want her in the White House. President Bill Clinton nominated her to head the Eastern District for the last two years of his presidency.