Steve is a native of Shenandoah, Iowa, where he graduated from high school in 1971. He attended the University of Iowa, where he graduated in 1976 with a degree in history and political science. He entered the University of Iowa College of Law and graduated in 1979. He was a Student Editor for the Moot Court Board during law school. Upon graduation he took a position as law clerk to the Scott County (Iowa) District Court judges. In 1980 he and his wife, Connie, moved to Champaign, Illinois, where he was admitted to the Illinois bar and began practicing with Lawrence E. Johnson and Associates of Champaign. In 1983 he and his family moved to Coralville, and Steve began practicing as an associate for Sladek and Lynch at 1402 Willow Creek Court in Iowa City. Since that time, under the names of Lynch Law Office, Jansen and Lynch, and Lynch, Greenleaf, and Michael, L.L.P., the current name of the firm, Steve has continued to practice law in state and federal courts. Steve has held memberships in the Iowa State Bar Association, the Johnson County Bar Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association, and the Iowa Trial Lawyers Association. He has also been a barrister member of the Dean Mason Ladd American Inn of Court. As a member of the bar association he has held memberships in the Young Lawyers Sections on Law and Mental Health and Criminal Justice committees, and he has been a member of the Litigation, Family and Juvenile Law, and Criminal Law sections of the Iowa State Bar Association. Steve has made presentations of various topics to University of Iowa College of Law classes, the Dean Mason Ladd Inn of Court, and to the Iowa Bar Association Labor Law section. He has served as a moot court judge for junior high, high school, undergraduate, and law school programs. Steve has been admitted to practice to the federal district courts in Iowa, central Illinois, and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Steve has been active supporter of the Iowa City Public Library, having served on the Friends of the Iowa City Public Library Board of Directors and the Iowa City Public Library Board of Trustees, including two years as Board president. In addition, Steve served on the Iowa City Downtown Strategy Committee on behalf of the Library, and he served as Co-Treasurer for the two referendum campaigns necessary to obtain funding for the Library expansion approved in 2000.
Steve has served as a youth soccer and basketball coach. He is active in politics. Steve's wife Connie is a teacher employed by the Iowa City Community School District. They have two adult daughters.
If the need arises to reach Steve outside of the office his phone number is (319) 337-4389.
