Lynch is sure skilled at using the revolving door. Her first legal job was as a litigation associate for the powerful law firm, Cahill Gordon & Reindel.
She then joined the Eastern District as a staff attorney in 1990. From 1998 to 1999, she was the Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District. In 1999, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to serve as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
In 2001, Lynch left the office to become a partner at Hogan & Hartson (later Hogan Lovells). Get this, from 2003 to 2005, she was a member of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, when Timothy Geithner was president of the bank. She remained there until January 20, 2010, when President Obama nominated Lynch to again serve as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
