Elected and Appointed Government Officials 2017

The young lawyer that once idolized Evelyn Gandy is now one of a select group of women to hold statewide office in Mississippi, and she’s rumored to be looking for another potential political step in 2019. Re-elected to her second term in 2015, Lynn Fitch is Mississippi’s 54th Treasurer.

Raised in Holly Springs, Mississippi, she earned both an undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Mississippi. At 23, Lynn began practicing law as a Special Assistant Attorney General and was later in private practice as a bond lawyer.

In 2009, Lynn was selected by Governor Barbour to serve as Executive Director of the Mississippi State Personnel Board. Prior to MSPB, Lynn served as Deputy Executive Director at the Mississippi Department of Employment Security and as Counsel for the Mississippi House of Representatives Ways and Means and Local and Private Legislation Committees.

She has advocated mightily for financial education and is trying to make great strides to build that platform in your education around the state.

She was selected as Outstanding Woman Lawyer of 2012, recognized as a Woman Trailblazer by the Mississippi Bar Association, honored as a Mississippi Business Journal Leader in Finance 2016, and named a 2015 Honoree of the Women in Government Leadership Program by Governing Magazine. Lynn also serves on the boards of several charitable organizations, including Goodwill and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.