Lynn joined the firm after graduation from the Northwestern University School of Law, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Northwestern University Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. She also was the first prize winner of the Lowden-Wigmore Prize for Legal Scholarship in 1993. Prior to her law studies, Lynn received a Master's from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism; she graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985.
Lynn is a vice president of the Community Foundation for Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago. She also serves on the Board of Directors of The Enterprising Kitchen, a non-profit organization that provides underprivileged women with job skills and economic independence.
Career Highlights
- Advocate
Appointed as Child's Representative in the Circuit Court of Cook County
Drafted brief in U.S. Supreme Court case of Illinois v. Wardlow - Leader
Director, Community Foundation for Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago, 2001-Present
Director, The Enterprising Kitchen, 2003-Present
Member, Board of Directors, American Judicature Society, 1997-1999 - Published Author
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology;
author: "On a Constitutional Collision Course: Attorney No-Comment Rules and the Right of Access to Information," 83 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 664 (1992).
Published in the American Bar Association's Student Lawyer:
"Giving Credit Where It's Due," November 2000
"Scott Turow Grows Up," May 2000
"Self-Control," March 2000
"The Struggle to Juggle," December 1999
"Just When You Thought It Would Be Safe to Save Money," October 1999
