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Magistrate Judge Debra McVicker Lynch, a summa cum laude graduate of IU McKinney, has announced her retirement from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. She will retire effective October 31. A story about the announcement was published in the Indiana Lawyer.

Judge Lynch was appointed U.S. Magistrate Judge on October 24, 2008. Prior to this, she was of counsel at the law firm then known as Sommer Barnard, now Taft Stettinius & Hollister, where she was of counsel from 1988 until her appointment. Her practice included litigation of contract disputes, business dissolutions, antitrust matters, securities fraud cases, professional malpractice actions, and non-competition and trade secret matters. Before joining the firm, Judge Lynch served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sarah Evans Barker from 1986 to 1988. Judge Barker will speak at the event.

While a student at IU McKinney, Judge Lynch served as editor-in-chief of the Indiana Law Review. She has served as an adjunct professor at the law school, teaching a course in complex litigation, a subject in which she was well versed. She served as Special Master for Judge Sarah Evans Barker in the Bridgestone/Firestone Tires Products Liability Multidistrict Litigation from 2000 to 2004. She was named IU McKinney’s Outstanding Alumna of the Year in 2016.

Judge Lynch was named Outstanding Alumna of the Year in 2016 by IU McKinney’s Alumnae Network. The network is a forum for women graduates of IU McKinney to connect with each other, current students, and the law school community. To learn more, visit the network’s page on the law school’s website.