Timothy G. Lynch

Timothy G. Lynch has been the University of Michigan’s Vice President and General Counsel since January 2013. He joined the University from the U.S. Department of Energy, where he served as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Enforcement and, for a time, Acting General Counsel. Before then, he served for seven years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where he was a senior prosecutor in the Fraud and Public Corruption Section for four years. 

Tim also served as a lecturer at the University of Virginia Law School and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Tim began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Cornelia G. Kennedy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and then practiced law at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Shea & Gardner. Tim earned his law degree from Georgetown, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Law Journal. 

He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester and, while there, studied and performed at the Eastman School of Music. Tim is an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan Law School and serves on the Executive Committee of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. In 2024, he served as chair of the Advisory Committee on the University of Michigan Principles on Diversity of Thought and Freedom of Expression. 

Tim is president-elect of the board of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Tim also serves as chair of the general counsel steering committee of the Association of American Universities. He served as a member of the board of directors for the University Musical Society from 2017 to 2025.