After
thirty-one years active Air Force service, I am
now a retired JAG Colonel. I served as an enlisted
member for six years before being awarded an Air
Force ROTC college scholarship. Designated an
Air Force Distinguished Graduate (Top 10% in the
country), I was commissioned a second lieutenant
in 1977, and for four years I served as a missile
combat crew commander and crew instructor. The
Air Force then competitively selected me for law
school.
I
served the balance of my military career as a
Judge Advocate - a military lawyer serving military
commanders and the military community. As a "JAG,"
I served as a community legal assistance attorney
(family law such as adoptions and divorces, wills
and estates, and consumer law); as a felony prosecutor;
Special Assistant United States Attorney; contracts
and commercial law attorney; commercial law trial
attorney; as Chief of Air Force Commercial Law
and Litigation - the Air Force's senior uniformed
business lawyer and chief federal trial attorney;
and I served in various other lawyer and leader
positions, including three times as a Command
General Counsel (Staff Judge Advocate in "military
speak"). In the federal courts, I successfully
represented the government in cases against contractors
such as Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Westinghouse
involving intense litigation with millions of
tax-payer dollars at stake. I am also very experienced
in negotiating favorable settlement agreements-which
usually provide better, less costly outcomes than
litigation.
Following
retirement from the Air Force, I was director
of Paralegal and Legal Studies at the University
of Texas at San Antonio. I then served ten years
as the Chief of Commercial and Financial Law for
the U. S. Army's Installation Management Command.
Throughout my career I have served as an adjunct
professor in business and in law at a variety
of colleges and universities. After a lengthy,
satisfying career in public service, I now want
to use my education, experience, and skills to
serve my community and to serve you.
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