Officers*
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President: Franklin D. Rosenblatt
Frank Rosenblatt is an Associate Professor, Mississippi College School of Law. Prior to joining the academy, he practiced at Butler Snow LLP and clerked for the Honorable Barbara J. Rothstein on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Before that he served in the U.S. Army JAG Corps, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. |
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Vice-President: Brenner M. Fissell
Brenner M. Fissell is Professor of Law (with tenure) at Villanova University, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), and Co-Editor of CAAFlog. He served as an attorney-advisor for Chief Judge Scott Stucky of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and as a GS-15 appellate defense counsel at the Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions. |
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General Counsel: Michel Paradis
Michel Paradis is a leading human rights lawyer, historian, and national security law scholar. Most recently the author of the critically acclaimed The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower. He is a partner at the international law firm Steptoe LLP and a Lecturer at Columbia Law School. He has appeared on or written for the PBS NewsHour, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, C-SPAN, Netflix, NPR, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Lawfare, Just Security, Articles of War, among other publications. He is a contributing editor at Lawfare, a fellow at the Center on National Security, and serves on the board of the National Institute for Military Justice. He was awarded his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Campion Scholar, and received his law degree from Fordham Law School in New York. |
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Treasurer: Walter B. Slocombe
Walter B. Slocombe is a Senior Counsel in Caplin & Drysdale's Washington, D.C., office. While at the firm, Mr. Slocombe has served in the United States Department of Defense as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 1994 to 2001 and in 2003, as Senior Advisor for National Defense in the Coalition Provisional Authority for Iraq. In 2004, President Bush appointed him to the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. |
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Secretary: Jason Grover
Jason started his career as a Navy judge advocate, rising to the rank of Commander. In 2007, he was selected as an expert in the first round of the Navy JAGC's Military Justice Litigation Qualification board. While in the Navy, he served as legal assistance attorney, trial defense counsel, trial counsel, appellate defense counsel, and staff judge advocate. From 2004 to 2006, he served as the Navy's Capital Resource Counsel. In 2006, he was one of four co-founders of the premier military justice blog, CAAFlog. He has been a fellow with the National Institute of Military Justice since 2021 and is currently serving on NIMJ's board of directors and as its Secretary. Jason has also served as a volunteer firefighter since 2016. Jason received his undergraduate degree from George Mason University, law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law, and masters degrees from the Naval War College. |
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Chair of the Board: Philip D. Cave
Phil Cave is Chair of NIMJ. One of the longest practicing military defense attorneys in the United States--perhaps the longest--many consider him to be Dean of the defense bar. |
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President Emerita: Rachel VanLandingham
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Founding President: Eugene R. Fidell
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Chair Emeritus: Ronald W. Meister
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