Lynn Clinton Van Patter serves as the Payroll Manager for the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at ASU's West campus. Lynn was born in Des Moines, Iowa, raised in Southern California and has lived in Phoenix since 1993. She has spent 34 years working in higher education. Before coming to Arizona State University, Lynn worked in Undergraduate Admissions at the University of California, Riverside from 1986 until moving to Arizona in 1993. Lynn is the mother of four, three daughters and a son. She is also the grandmother to two very rambunctious boys, age 6 and 3.