Background
Born in Lima, Ohio, the son of Rodney and Marie Lynch, he is a 1964 graduate of the United States Naval Academy.
Born in Lima, Ohio, the son of Rodney and Marie Lynch, he is a 1964 graduate of the United States Naval Academy.
He was Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland from June 15, 1991 to August 1, 1994. He was reassigned in the aftermath of an exam cheating scandal there. He played football there, lettering three times and captaining the 1963 team
He also was involved in boxing.
Lynch also held the command of the Eisenhower Battle Group during the course of Operation Desert Shield, and chief of Navy Legislative Affairs. He retired in 1995, in the position of Director of the Navy Staff at the Pentagon in Washington, District of Columbia In 2012, Lynch was named to the board of directors of Premier Holdings Corporation, an energy services holding company.
As the chairman of the board at mortgage bank NewDay United States of America, he also appears as its spokesman for Virginia home loans on television
He is also a member of many boards of private and public corporations, including Safeguard Scientifics, Incorporated., The Musser Group, Livingston Group, Chrysalis Holdings, and The Staubach Company. He is a trustee on the Naval Academy Foundation, member of the Army-Navy Game Committee, Philadelphia Sports Congress as well as a distinguished graduate of the Naval Academy.
