N. Lynn Board, Esq.

Of Counsel

Telephone: (443) 853-9012

Email: lboard@levanruff.com

Lynn has extensive experience representing and advising municipal governments across a wide range of legal matters and has also prepared and implemented ordinances, resolutions, policies, agreements, and contracts, often coordinating with City, County, State and Federal agencies. She has litigated employment, police liability, land development and administrative appeal cases in State and Federal Courts and also prosecuted drug forfeiture and municipal infraction cases.

Lynn has also presented at several municipal associations and conferences on legal topics including managing community telecommunications challenges, annexation and graffiti regulation, comparative negligence legislation, small cell facilities, first amendment concerns for disruptive meetings and regulating rights-of-way.

Bar Admission

Maryland Court of Appeals, 1988

U.S. District Court for District of Maryland, 1988

Education

Gonzaga University School of Law, J.D., 1984

University of Montana, B.A. in Journalism & Political Science, 1981

 

Experience

Positions Held with Municipal Governments:

City of Gaithersburg

  • City Attorney, April 2008 - December 2023

Town of Thurmont

  • Town Attorney, 2001 - 2008

Town of Mount Airy

  • Town Attorney, 2002 - 2008

City of Frederick

  • City Attorney, 1990 - 2001

Types of Municipal Boards and Commissions Represented

  • Boards of Zoning Appeals

  • Planning Commissions

  • Historic District Commission

  • Ethics Commission

  • Board of Supervisors of Elections

  • Animal Control Board

  • Personnel Review Board

  • Advisory Committees

Professional Affiliations

  • Maryland Municipal Attorneys Association , President (2019 - 2022), Vice President (2017-2018), Secretary (2016-2018)

  • Maryland State Bar Association, State and Local Government Section, Section Council (2004-2007), President (2007), Vice President (2006), Secretary (2005)

  • Maryland Municipal League, Legislative Committee Member (2016 - 2019)

  • Local Government Insurance Trust, Claims Committee Member ( 2014 - 2023)

  • Attorney representative for local government on the Intergovernmental Advisory Committee of the Federal Communications Commission (2021 - 2023)