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'''Gerard E. Lynch''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[1972|72]] [[Law]] '[[1975|75]] is a judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and was formerly a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He holds the distinction of having been both the [[valedictorian]] of his Columbia College class as well as first in his class in the law school.

After law school, Lynch clerked for Supreme Court Justice William Brennan and was a U.S. Attorney in New York. 

Lynch is also a professor at the law school. He received the student-voted [[Willis Reese Award for Excellence in Teaching]] ([[1994]]) and was the first member of the law faculty to receive the University-wide [[President's Award for Outstanding Teaching]] ([[1997]]).

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