Lynn Rhinehart is a Washington, D.C.-based labor lawyer.  She recently resumed her affiliation with the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that provides research and analysis on economic issues as they affect working people, as a Senior Fellow, with a focus on labor and employment policy, unions, and collective bargaining. 

From June 2021-November 2023, Lynn was a Senior Counselor in the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor.  She assisted then-Secretary Marty Walsh and Acting Secretary Julie Su in their roles as Vice Chair of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, established by Executive Order 14025, and advised them on other issues relating to unions and collective bargaining, including the West Coast port negotiations, the Big 3/UAW negotiations, and others.

Until July 2018, Lynn was General Counsel of the national AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 national and international labor unions, and executive director of the AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance (formerly the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee), a national organization of 2,100 union-side labor lawyers.

Lynn is a graduate of Georgetown Law and the University of Michigan.