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 was designated by the President to serve as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Enforcement and 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. He was a lecturer at the University of Virginia Law School and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center while serving as an AUSA. Before his government service, Tim was an attorney at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Shea & Gardner; clerked in Detroit for Judge Cornelia G. Kennedy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; and graduated from Georgetown, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Law Journal. Tim received his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester.
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 National Association of College and University Attorneys board of directors. From 2016 to 2019, he served on the NACUA board and chaired the audit committee. Tim is also a member of the board of directors for the University Musical Society and serves on the general counsels committee for the Association of American Universities.