Lynn J. Bush | |
Office: | Senior Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims |
Term Start: | October 22, 2013 |
Office1: | Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims |
Term Start1: | October 22, 1998 |
Term End1: | October 22, 2013 |
Appointer1: | Bill Clinton |
Predecessor1: | Wilkes C. Robinson |
Successor1: | David A. Tapp |
Birth Name: | Lynn Jeanne Bush[1] |
Birth Date: | 30 December 1948 |
Birth Place: | Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. |
Education: | Antioch University (BA) Georgetown University (JD) |
Lynn Jeanne Bush (born December 30, 1948)[2] is a senior judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, appointed to that court in 1998 by President Bill Clinton.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, to John E. Bush III and Alice (Saville) Bush,[2] Bush received a Bachelor of Arts from Antioch College in 1970, after which she received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, followed by a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1976.[2] [3]
Admitted to the Arkansas Bar in 1976 and to the District of Columbia Bar in 1977, she was a trial attorney for the Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1976 to 1987. She then moved to the Department of the Navy, where she was senior trial attorney for Naval Facilities Engineering Command until 1989, and counsel for Engineering Field Activity Chesapeake until 1996. She then became an administrative judge for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Board of Contract Appeals from 1996 until 1998.[2] [3]
On June 22, 1998, Bush was nominated by President Bill Clinton to be a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 21, 1998, and received her commission the next day.[2] [3] She assumed senior status on October 22, 2013.
Bush has one son, Brian Bush Ferguson.[2]