Excerpts from obituary published in San Diego Union-tribune on 10/11/2020:

William C. Lynch passed away peacefully on October 7, 2020 in San Diego.   He was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on July 5, 1932 and graduated from Boston College Law School.  He had a distinguished twenty-two-year career as a Judge Advocate in the Navy.  For his international treaty work with the Secretary of the Navy he was awarded the Legion of Merit, the Navy’s highest non-combat honor.  After his work in the Secretary’s office, he moved to California to become head of the Naval Legal Service Office in San Diego.  Following his retirement from the Navy with the rank of Captain, he was a professor at California Western School of Law in San Diego, served as Associate Dean, and coached the Moot Court team.  He was married in 1958 and his wife predeceased him in 2019.  CAPT Lynch is survived by his three children and five grandchildren.

Submitted by CDR Roy A. Mosteller, USNR (Ret)