Bengaluru: J.C. Lynn passed away at 9:30pm (Thursday 15th April) at St. Philomena’s Hospital where he had been in the ICU for the past 10 days battling a COPD exacerbation from which he has been suffering these last few years.
J.C. Lynn (IAS retd) served a Chief Secretary to the Govt of Karnataka between 1992 and 1994. In a career spanning 34 years, he held several important positions in the State and Central Governments. He had served as Secretary to three Chief Ministers, Veerendra Patil, D. Deveraj Urs and briefly of R. Gundu Rao holding the post for ten years. He also held the posts of Home and Industries Secretaries to the Govt of Karnataka, before being appointed Chairman of Karnataka Road Transport Corporation KSRTC and simultaneously as Chairman of the KSTDC, before being posted to Delhi, where he served in the Departments of Coal and Personnel before being appointed Chairman of the Food Corporation of India in the rank of Secretary to the Government of India.
