By Eugene Scott
Washington Post
November 17, 2017
The department went from being headed by the first black female attorney general, Loretta Lynch, to not having any black Americans in senior positions, something Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric L. Richmond (D-La.) probed during a House hearing with Sessions this week.
“I do not have a senior staff member at this time that’s an African-American,” Sessions acknowledged when asked about the significant decrease in diversity of judicial nominees.