Gerard E. Lynch
Gerard E. Lynch CC '72 Law '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).
