Kevin Lynch, Irish judge and barrister, is born in Dublin on June 24, 1927. He serves 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 is the sole member of the Kerry Babies tribunal.

Lynch’s father, Fionán Lynch, is a member of the First Dáil and a judge of the Circuit Court.

Lynch attends St. Mary’s College, Dublin and receives a degree from University College Dublin (UCD). He attends the King’s Inns where he wins the John Brooke Scholarship.

Lynch is called to the bar in 1949, and becomes a senior counsel in 1970. His practice is centered on the Midland circuit.

Lynch becomes a judge of the High Court in 1984. In December 1984, he is appointed the sole member of the tribunal into the Kerry Babies case. He is among three judges who sit in a divisional High Court which hears an unsuccessful challenge by Des Hanafin to result of the 1995 divorce referendum. He hears the High Court hearing of Bula Ltd v Tara Mines Ltd (No 6) in 1996 which runs for 277 days.

Lynch is appointed to the Supreme Court of Ireland in April 1996. He is delayed from first sitting on the court as the Bula case has not yet completed. He retires in December 1999.

Lynch is married to Bernadette, with whom he has five children. He dies at the age of 85 on October 31, 2013, in a nursing home near Croom, County Limerick.