A native of Huntsville, Lynne is a graduate of Lee High School and Vanderbilt University. She is the planned giving officer for the Huntsville Hospital Foundation. Prior to that, she served as Executive Director of the HudsonAlpha Foundation. She was the founding Executive Director of the Community Foundation of Huntsville/Madison County. She has served in the offices of both a United States Congressman and Senator. She has been a high school teacher and a NASA department head. She has also worked in positions that promoted Huntsville’s tourist attractions, preserved its historic sites, and protected the area’s natural environment.
Lynne serves on the following boards and committees:
- Leadership Alabama, Emeritus (Class 3, Board Chair 2004-2005)
- Alabama Department of Archives and History Foundation
- Huntsville Committee of 100 (Board Chair 2020 and 2021)
- Village of Promise Board of Directors
- Huntsville Housing Authority Advisory Board
- Church of the Nativity Outreach Committee
She was a member of the Health Care Authority for the City of Huntsville from 1993–1999. She was a member of the Alabama Humanities Foundation Board for twenty years and served as Board Chair in 2016. She was a member of the board of directors of The Nature Conservancy, Alabama chapter, and served as Board Chair 2009-2010. She was in Class 1 of Leadership Huntsville and is a past board chair (1992-1993). She proposed and established Huntsville Hospital’s Community Health Initiative in 1996. She received the 2018 Women’s Economic Development Council’s Women Honoring Women Award, the 2019 Wayne Greenhaw Award from the Alabama Humanities Foundation, and the 2023 Martin Luther King, Jr., Unity Award from Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Huntsville’s oldest black fraternity.
Lynne also manages her family’s businesses, Berry Millsaps Properties, J. T. Berry, Inc., and Millsaps Plaza.