From 1993 to 1996, she served in the first Clinton administration at the Department of the Interior as counselor to Secretary Bruce Babbitt. At Interior, she was the lead negotiator of the $700 million groundbreaking Everglades restoration settlement among environmentalists, local Indian tribes, the farming industry, and the federal and state governments. Glynn began her legal career as an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.
Active in the community, Glynn served on the governing council of the Miller Center for Public Affairs, a think tank devoted to the study of U.S. national governmental institutions, policies and programs, as well as the advisory board for the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business’ Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL), and the board of trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
She was a member of the Seven Society at the University of Virginia. In March of 2004, then governor, Mark Warner, appointed Glynn to UVA’s Board of Visitors, where she served until 2012.
Glynn published many articles, including The Global Business of Law in the Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal (March 2012).
Glynn earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia. She was a 1982 graduate of Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Alonzo and Eula Glenn and George and Evelyn Key.
She is survived by her parents, Mr. Charles F. (Ruby) Key Sr., brother, Charles F. Key, Jr., aunt, Gloria Glenn, three nieces, a host of cousins, other relatives and friends.