Judge Lynn J. Bush was nominated by President William Jefferson Clinton on June 22, 1998 and appointed a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims on October 22, 1998. Judge Bush is the first African-American woman to be appointed to the court and the second African-American to ever serve on the Court of Federal Claims. She is a 1970 graduate of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and a 1970 Thomas J. Watson Fellow. Judge Bush received a J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1976.

At the beginning of her legal career, Judge Bush litigated before the Court of Federal Claims as a trial attorney handling complex civil cases in the Commercial Litigation Branch (formerly Court of Claims Section) after joining the United States Department of Justice's Civil Division in 1976. She practiced before the Court of Federal Claims for eleven years in that capacity. Judge Bush is a member of several federal and state bars, including the United States Supreme Court, the District of Columbia and Arkansas bars. She resides in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

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