The U.S. Justice Department’s two highest-ranking officials—both ground-breaking women—delivered commencement addresses in Georgia this month that included passionate and poignant calls for justice on the part of the graduating classes they addressed.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the first African-American woman to hold the post, delivered the commencement address at Spelman College on May 15. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, formerly U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta, spoke at commencement last Sunday at her alma mater, the University of Georgia School of Law. Before she was appointed deputy attorney general, Yates was the first woman named as a U.S. attorney in Georgia.
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