President Obama will nominate Loretta Lynch to the post of Attorney General, said the White House Friday.

Lynch, 55, is the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, and if confirmed would be the first African-American woman to hold the position and the first in two centuries to be appointed to Attorney General from the comparatively low-level position of United States attorney.

A ceremony in the Roosevelt Room will be held Saturday to officially announce her selection. The President will be joined by Ms. Lynch and current Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

According to the New York Times, Josh Ernest, White House press secretary, deemed Lynch “a strong, independent prosecutor” and referenced her service as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, a position she held in 2000 and has held currently since 2010.

The media had suspected Lynch might be nominated since Holder first announced he was stepping down in late September.

The decision to choose a low-profile prosecutor comes after Republicans won majority in the Senate.

It is undecided whether Lynch will be instituted in the new position before the final congressional session of the current Democrat-majority Senate which convenes next week.

The Republican reaction to the appointment has so far been reservedly positive. However it is likely, said the NY Times, that if the President had chosen someone with which he had closer ties, the Republican reaction would have been strongly negative.

Lynch gained her undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard.

Before becoming as United States Attorney in 2010, she was a partner at Hogan & Hartson, now known as Hogan Lovells.