Sister Lynn McKenzie is a Benedictine Sister of Sacred Heart Monastery in Cullman, Alabama where she entered in 1981.  Since 2014 Sister Lynn has served as President of the Benedictine Sisters of the Monastic Congregation of Saint Scholastica, a role in which she serves 17 monasteries of Benedictine Sisters across the United States as well as in Mexico.  Since 2018 she has also served as Moderator (European church term for president or head) of Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum which is an international organization of approximately 13,000 Benedictine Sisters spread across 6 continents.

Education:

B.A., Political Science, University of Alabama, 1979

J.D. (civil law), University of Alabama School of Law, 1985

J.C.L. (canon law), The Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.), 1994

Employment History:

Staff Attorney, Greater Birmingham Ministries, 1985-1986

Partner, Knight Griffith McKenzie Knight & McLeroy, LLP, 1986-2012

Defender of the Bond (also judge ad causam), Catholic Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama, 1994-2015

Ombudsman (Mediator), State of Alabama Department of Labor, 1999-2001, 2012-2014

Free lance canonical consultant and canonical advocate for religious institutes and members of religious institutes, 1994-2014

President, Monastic Congregation of St. Scholastica, 2014 to the present

Moderator, Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum, 2018 to the present