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Books with Barb

Lifelong learning keeps your brain healthy!

In this series of interviews, American Inns of Court President, Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn, interviews lawyers and judges from around the world who have had the wherewithal to write a book.

Well worth the time to watch, these interviews will delight and surprise you!


about Your host, Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn

Barbara M.G. Lynn took the oath of office as a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Texas on February 14, 2000. From 2016–2022, Judge Lynn was the Chief Judge of the Northern District of Texas, the first female chief in Texas.

A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Virginia, Judge Lynn graduated first in her class at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law in 1976. Upon her graduation from law school, she joined the Dallas law firm of Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, LLP, and remained there until she took the bench.

Judge Lynn is the president of the American Inns of Court. In 2011, a new American Inn of Court in Dallas, dedicated to intellectual property, was chartered and designated by its founding members as the Honorable Barbara M.G. Lynn American Inn of Court. Judge Lynn is a member and was president of the Patrick E. Higginbotham American Inn of Court and is a founding member of the Judge Sarah T. Hughes North Texas Federal Criminal Law American Inn of Court.