PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Jewish Exponent
May 13, 2020
By Sophie Panzer
Lynne Abraham doesn’t quit.
In the midst of a global pandemic, the 79-year-old former Philadelphia District Attorney has commandeered her dining room table so that she can work from home. Social distancing has limited interviews to phone calls and email, but she paints a picture with her words.
“My dining room table is a dog’s breakfast — the same as any desk I’ve ever sat behind,” she noted.
Abraham is a partner at the law firm Archer & Greiner, P.C. This might come as a surprise to the firms who refused to hire women in 1965, the year she graduated from Temple Law School as one of two women in her class and had difficulty finding work. Even more surprising might be her four terms as the city’s DA and her 2015 mayoral campaign.
She knew the odds were against her in many of her professional endeavors. It never stopped her from trying.
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