[3] Resnick was born Lynda Rae Harris[4] to a Jewish family in Baltimore, Maryland,[5][6] and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

[7] Because of her father's occupation, Resnick, at the age of four, had a recurring role on The Horn & Hardart Children's Hour broadcast from WCAU-TV in Philadelphia.

By the fall of 1969, Resnick had divorced her first husband, Hershel Sinay, and began dating Anthony J. Russo, an engineer at RAND Corporation, a think tank in Santa Monica, Calif.

Starting the night of Oct. 1, Russo, Ellsberg, and various helpers copied 7,000 pages of the secret, government-commissioned history of America's involvement in Vietnam, known as the Pentagon Papers.

Dubbed the Pentagon Papers, they detailed aspects of the Vietnam War that had been hidden from the public, damaging the credibility of the presidents involved.

The Resnicks met while he was president of American Protection Industries, in Los Angeles, California, and she was pitching her ad agency to get his business.

As vice-chair and co-owner of Teleflora's holding company, Resnick has been involved with securing flagship TV sponsorship roles.

[16] After the Resnicks purchased the Franklin Mint in 1984,[12] Lynda began directing the company's international marketing efforts, a role she held until 2000.

[18] Also during her tenure, the company secured licensing for products related to the Louvre art museum in Paris, the Vatican,[19] board games like Monopoly and Scrabble classic cars, and celebrities like John Wayne, Elvis Presley, and Marilyn Monroe.

[30] In 2018, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles announced a $30 million gift from Lynda and Stewart Resnick to help pay for a renovation and expansion project.

[31] In September 2019, Lynda Resnick and her husband pledged $750 million to the California Institute of Technology for environmental sustainability research.

The largest local recipient of donations under the program is Wasco Union High School, which during the past twelve years has received more than $210,000 thanks to Wonderful Giving.

[38] In 2016 the US Chamber of Commerce recognized Resnick and The Wonderful Company with their Corporate Citizenship Award for their work in community improvement.

"[41] Growing water-intensive nut tree crops (a single almond requires 1.1 US gallons [4.2 L] of water[42]) in the Central Valley drew criticism during the 2011–17 California drought.

According to Forbes, Wonderful Company uses "at least 120 billion gallons [450 million m3] a year, two-thirds on nuts, enough to supply San Francisco's 852,000 residents for a decade.

According to Forbes, "The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint in 2010 that the Resnicks' POM Wonderful had used deceptive advertising when marketing the antioxidant-rich drink as being able to treat, prevent or reduce the risk of heart disease, prostate cancer and erectile dysfunction.