CAPT (Ret.) Lynn A. Nash. US Public Health Service, was born and raised in Barre, Vermont. She is a graduate of Concord Hospital School of Nursing, Concord, N.H. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Vermont College of Norwich University, in Vermont; her MSN in Community Health from University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio; and her PhD in Nursing Research, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD.

In addition to serving in the Vermont National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserve, Lynn completed 30 years of active-duty service in the U.S. Army and then the U.S. Public Health Service, where she put her community health and preventive medicine experience to use. She served in a variety of positions, most notably as the Senior Public Health Advisor to the Secretary of the newly established Department of Homeland Security and then for the Secretary of Department of Transportation, where she represented her departments on National Security Council policy committees in the development of national public health and emergency response policy. As a leader she helped institute the deployable arm of the Public Health Service and led the anthrax health response on Capitol Hill, creating the first point of distribution in the United States.

Since her retirement, Lynn has continued serving others as a Director and Communications lead for the Maryland Military Coalition and Legislative Director of the Maryland Council of Chapters, Military Officers Association of America. She is a lifetime member of the Reserve Organization of America, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Commissioned Officers of the U.S. Public Health Service, and the Military Officers Association of America, and has memberships in her local Montgomery County MOAA chapter, the MOAA Uniformed Services Nurse Advocates Virtual Chapter and the Maryland Response Corps where she has vaccinated thousands during the SARS-2 outbreak. In 2021, she received an Environmental award from her city as a “Weed Warrior”. Lynn has three grown children and four grandkids. She and her husband Jay live in Gaithersburg.