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Flynn is currently serving his second term as the 41st District Attorney of Erie County, NY. Serving in the United States Navy after college, Flynn returned to active duty after law school and served in the Navy Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps. He served as a Navy attorney at Pensacola Naval Air Station, in Pensacola, Florida, where he was also appointed a Special Assistant United States Attorney. He then served his final two years on active duty at the United States Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland, as the Officer-in-Charge of the Office of Legal Counsel and as an instructor. Flynn was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals during his time on active duty. Flynn continued to serve in the Naval Reserves until his retirement in 2017, reaching the rank of Commander. After re-affiliating with the reserves in 2001, he earned four additional Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals.

Flynn previously worked as a personal injury attorney, a lecturer at SUNY Buffalo State, Town Justice and Town Attorney in Tonawanda, New York, and Judge in Buffalo City Court. He is currently the President of the of the District Attorneys Association of New York (DAASNY) and Chairman of the Board of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA).