Lynne Marsha Abraham was born on January 31,1941 and is an American attorney who served as the district attorney of the City of Philadelphia from May 1991 to January 2010.
18 Facts About Lynne Abraham
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Lynne Abraham was the first woman to serve as Philadelphia's district attorney.
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Lynne Abraham ran for Mayor of Philadelphia in the 2015 election, but lost the Democratic primary.
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Lynne Abraham was born in 1941 and raised in Philadelphia, where she was educated in Philadelphia public schools.
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Lynne Abraham's grandparents were a tailor and a butcher from Europe.
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Lynne Abraham studied at Temple University for her undergraduate degree and received her Juris Doctor from Temple University Beasley School of Law.
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Lynne Abraham served as a legislative consultant for the city council of Philadelphia.
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Lynne Abraham was elected Judge of the Philadelphia Municipal Court in 1977, then was elected to the Court of Common Pleas in 1980, where she presided over criminal trials until she became district attorney in 1991.
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Lynne Abraham was re-elected three more times; in 1997,2001 and 2005.
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Lynne Abraham held the office of district attorney longer than anyone else in Philadelphia history, during which time she saw 108 capital sentences returned.
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Lynne Abraham earned the nicknames "Deadliest DA" and "Queen of Death" for the high rate at which her office, especially prosecutor Roger King, sought the death penalty in past decades.
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In 2007, Abraham charged William J Barnes for the murder of a police officer, whom Barnes shot forty-one years earlier during a failed burglary.
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Barnes had served twenty years for the incident, but Lynne Abraham believed she could prove causation between Barnes' shot and the urinary tract infection.
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Lynne Abraham retired in 2009, and was replaced by Seth Williams.
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In 2015, Lynne Abraham ran for Mayor of Philadelphia in 2015 and finished third among six candidates in the Democratic primary.
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In 2017, Lynne Abraham applied to serve as interim district attorney following the resignation of Seth Williams, who had pleaded guilty in a federal corruption case.
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Lynne Abraham is co-founder of I-LEAD Charter School in Reading, Pennsylvania.
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Lynne Abraham was married to Frank Ford until his death in March 2009.