| Office: | Judge of the Supreme Court |
| Term Start: | 15 April 1996 |
| Term End: | 15 December 1999 |
| Nominator: | Government of Ireland |
| Appointer: | Mary Robinson |
| Office1: | Judge of the High Court |
| Term Start1: | 24 January 1984 |
| Term End1: | 15 April 1996 |
| Nominator1: | Government of Ireland |
| Appointer1: | Patrick Hillery |
| Birth Date: | 24 June 1927 |
| Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
| Death Place: | Croom, County Limerick, Ireland |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Children: | 5 |
| Father: | Fionán Lynch |
| Education: | St Mary's College, Dublin |
Kevin Lynch (24 June 1927 – 31 October 2013) was an Irish judge and barrister who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1996 to 1999 and a Judge of the High Court from 1984 to 1996. In 1984, he was the sole member of the Kerry Babies tribunal.
Lynch was born in Dublin in 1927.[1] [2] His father, Fionán Lynch, was a member of the First Dáil and a judge of the Circuit Court.[3]
He attended St. Mary's College, Dublin and received a degree from University College Dublin.[4] He attended the King's Inns where he won the John Brooke Scholarship.
He was called to the bar in 1949, and became a senior counsel in 1970. His practice was centred on the Midland circuit.
Lynch became a judge of the High Court in 1984.[5] In December 1984, he was appointed the sole member of the tribunal into the Kerry Babies case.[6] He was among three judges who sat in a divisional High Court which heard an unsuccessful challenge by Des Hanafin to result of the 1995 divorce referendum.[7] He heard the High Court hearing of Bula Ltd v Tara Mines Ltd (No 6) in 1996 which ran for 277 days.
Lynch was appointed to the Supreme Court of Ireland in April 1996.[8] He was delayed from first sitting on the court as the Bula case had not yet completed.
He retired in December 1999.[9]
He was married to Bernadette, with who he had five children.[10] He died at the age of 85 in a nursing home near Croom, County Limerick, in 2013.