Atty Thomas V. Flynn

As Vice President and General Counsel, Thomas Flynn advises President John Denning, C.S.C., on strategic and operational issues. Additionally, he manages the institution’s Legal and Human Resources Departments. He routinely represents the College before state and federal courts and agencies. He manages Stonehill’s licensing, general compliance, data security, risk management and records management programs.

Flynn supports the Board of Trustees as the Clerk of the Corporation and as the liaison to the Board’s Governance Committee. Over the course of two decades, he has also held administrative and advisory roles in the College’s offices of Community Standards, Planned Giving, Communications and Admissions.

A former staff attorney for the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in Boston, Flynn began his legal career with Moriarty & Connor, based out of Springfield, Massachusetts. While still in law school, he interned for Deputy Attorney General of Connecticut Bernard McGovern. 

Flynn serves on the Board of Trustees of Saint Mary’s Center for Women and Children in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He is a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals for Rochester, Massachusetts. He is the past president of the nonprofit Tri-Town Unified Recreational Facilities, Inc., and has previously served on the Old Rochester Regional School Committee Facilities Sub-Committee. He is the former chair and vice chair of the school committee of East Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

In addition to maintaining membership with the Massachusetts state bar and United States district courts, Flynn is a notary public. He also holds his Massachusetts Educator’s Certificate in history and social studies for grades 9 through 12.

Flynn earned a Juris Doctor from Western New England University School of Law, located in Springfield, Massachusetts. He holds a master's in management & leadership from Western Governors University in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received a bachelor's degree in history with a minor in secondary education from Stonehill College.