The Uniform Code of Military Justice is the foundation of military law in the United States. It was established by the United States Congress in accordance with the authority given by the United States Constitution in Article I,Section 8,which provides that "The Congress shall have Power....To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval forces".
The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces is an Article I court that exercises worldwide appellate jurisdiction over members of the United States Armed Forces on active duty and other persons subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The court is composed of five civilian judges appointed for 15-year terms by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. The court reviews decisions from the intermediate appellate courts of the services:the Army Court of Criminal Appeals,the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals,the Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals,and the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals.
Diane Schwerm Sykes is an American jurist and lawyer who serves as the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She served as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1999 to 2004.
Notre Dame Law School is the professional graduate law school of the University of Notre Dame. Established in 1869,it is the oldest continuously operating Catholic law school in the United States. ND Law is ranked 22nd among the nation's "Top 100 Law Schools" by U.S. News &World Report and 14th by Above The Law in their annual Top 50 Law School Rankings. It is ranked 8th in graduates attaining federal judicial clerkships and 7th in graduates attaining Supreme Court clerkships.
Ann Claire Williams is a retired United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She is currently of counsel at Jones Day.
Federico A. Moreno is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Lisa M. Schenck is an American attorney,academic,and Judge of the United States Court of Military Commission Review. She has served as the associate dean for academic affairs at the George Washington University Law School since 2009. In March 2010,Schenck was appointed as a professorial lecturer in law,and teaches military justice. Prior to her career in academia,Schenck served in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps for more than 25 years.
Theresa Lazar Springmann is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
Amul Roger Thapar is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky. He was also President Trump's first Court of Appeals appointment and Trump's second judicial appointment after Justice Neil Gorsuch. Thapar was discussed as a candidate for the Supreme Court of the United States.
The Judge Advocate General's Corps,also known as JAG or JAG Corps,is the military justice branch or specialty of the United States Air Force,Army,Coast Guard,Marine Corps and Navy. Officers serving in the JAG Corps are typically called judge advocates.
Charles Edgar "Chip" Erdmann is a Senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. His term began on October 15,2002,and expired on July 31,2017.
Margaret Mary Sweeney is a Senior judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims,appointed to that court in 2005 by President George W. Bush. She served as chief judge from July 12,2018 to October 19,2020.
John Edward Sparks is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and former commissioner to the chief judge of the same court.
Neomi Jehangir Rao is an American jurist and legal scholar who serves as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2019,having served in the Trump Administration from 2017 to 2019 as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Amy Vivian Coney Barrett is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The fifth woman to serve on the court,she was nominated by President Donald Trump and has served since October 27,2020. She was a U.S. circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 2017 to 2020.
Gregory Eaton Maggs is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He was previously the Arthur Selwyn Miller Research Professor of Law and Co-Director of the National Security &U.S. Foreign Relations Law Program at the George Washington University Law School.
James Russell Sweeney II is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
Elizabeth "Britt" Cagle Grant is an American attorney and judge who is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Joseph Leo Falvey Jr. is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
Liam Patrick Hardy is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
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