Lynn C. Washington, Esq. – Lynn C. Washington is full equity partner with the law firm of Holland & Knight where he specializes in the development and financing of affordable housing developments and the representation of tax-exempt organizations in Florida and throughout the United States. Lynn has been with Holland and Knight since 1994. Before entering private practice, he worked as an attorney in the Office of District Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida.

Lynn is a graduate of Leadership Miami and Leadership Florida and was selected by Governor Lawton Chiles to serve on the Governor’s Study Commission on Property Insurance and Reinsurance, a commission created to study the impact of Hurricane Andrew on the insurance industry and the insured customers of Florida. He was also selected as a member of the Florida delegation to the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future, organized in an effort to meet the challenges facing our nation’s children and youth, with Former President Clinton, former Presidents serving as honorary Summit co-chairmen and General Colin Powell serving as General Chairman.

Lynn earned his B.S. in 1979 from the University of Florida. He earned his J.D., cum laude, in 1982 from Gonzaga University and his LL.M. in Taxation in 1987 from New York University. He is the author of Minority Set-Aside Program after City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson & Co., 19 Stetson Law Review 833 (Summer 1990). He is a member of the America Bar Association, the National Bar Association and the Judge Wilkie Ferguson Bar Association, formerly the Black Lawyers Association of Miami-Dade County.

Lynn is a Florida native. He was born in Gainesville, Florida and currently resides in Miami with his wife Cynthia. He is the son of Gus and Gloria Washington, both of which live in Alachua, Florida. He is the oldest of five children and has two wonderful nieces and two wonderful nephews that he tries to spend as much time with as possible.