Dr. Lynch, a member of the Commission since August 24, 2009, is professor emeritus of the College of William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Upon earning his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, he attended Navy Officer Candidate School and was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy Reserve and remained on active duty with the Underwater Demolition Team until July 1962. After filling numerous reserve billets, he retired in 1988 with the rank of Captain USNR. Dr. Lynch earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from the College of William and Mary, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1972. He has been a liaison to numerous universities as well as state and federal agencies. He has served as the Virginia Sea Grant director, director of the Chesapeake Bay Research Consortium and director of the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia. He has been an officer of several professional organizations, including the Virginia Academy of Science, the Coastal Society and the National Estuarine Research Reserve Association. Dr. Lynch also has served two terms on the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (“CBF”) board of trustees and been a leader of CBF’s York chapter. He served on the Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission from 1997 to 2015 and has served as its chair. Dr. Lynch resides in Williamsburg.

First Term: 06/08/09 – 06/07/13 (filled an unexpired term)
Second Term: 06/08/13 – 06/07/17
Third Term: 06/08/17 – 06/07/21

Commission Vice-Chair: 2016 to present
Finance Committee Member: 2017 to present
Operations and Nominations Committee Member: 2011

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Ms. Andrews, a member of the Commission since September 19, 2025, having formerly served as Senior Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the Environmental Section of the Virginia Office of the Attorney General, where she oversaw a team of attorneys representing and providing counsel to the Secretary of Natural Resources and the natural resources agencies of the Commonwealth. Ms. Andrews is a Distinguished Law & Policy Fellow at the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center and is also the former Director of William and Mary’s Virginia Coastal Policy Center. She also served as the Water Policy Manager for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, where she worked closely with the legislature, the regulated community, and environmental organizations to address the water quality and quantity challenges facing Virginia’s coastal areas in particular. Ms. Andrews is a graduate of the College of William and Mary Law School and received her Juris Doctor degree, summa cum laude, from the Washington College of Law at American University. Ms. Andrews resides in Williamsburg.

Appointed: 09/19/2025 (filled an unexpired term)

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