The Secretary of the Air Force,sometimes referred to as the Secretary of the Department of the Air Force,is the head of the Department of the Air Force and the service secretary for the United States Air Force and United States Space Force. The secretary of the Air Force is a civilian appointed by the president,by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The secretary reports to the secretary of defense and/or the deputy secretary of defense,and is by statute responsible for and has the authority to conduct all the affairs of the Department of the Air Force.
The Judge Advocate General's Corps also known as the "JAG Corps" or "JAG" is the legal arm of the United States Air Force.
Charles Floyd Hatcher is an American politician and lawyer from the U.S. state of Georgia. He served in Congress as a Democrat.
Kevin James O'Connor is an American lawyer who serves as vice president,General Counsel &Government Relations for the Carrier Corporation. Previously,he served as an attorney appointed by President George W. Bush and was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate as Connecticut’s 48th United States Attorney in 2002. From January to April 2006,O'Connor served as an associate deputy attorney general. In 2007,O'Connor served as Chief of Staff to United States Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. In 2008,O'Connor was unanimously confirmed as Associate Attorney General of the United States,the number three position at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ),a post he held until 2009,when he left the DOJ to join the law firm of Bracewell and Giuliani.
Ira De Ment was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
Stephen Woolman Preston is an American lawyer who served in administrations in Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
Paul Charles Ney Jr. is an American lawyer who served as the General Counsel of the Department of Defense of the United States from 2018 to 2021. He previously served as Acting General Counsel of the Navy and as the Chief Deputy Attorney General of Tennessee.
James Paul Oetken,known professionally as J. Paul Oetken,is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is the first openly gay man to be confirmed as an Article III judge.
Anatolio Benedicto ("A.B.") Cruz III is a retired navy admiral and former senior vice president,Enterprise Shared Services,and general counsel of USAA. He was previously the reserve deputy director,maritime operations (N04R) at U.S. Fleet Forces Command.
David Jeffrey Whitaker is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for the 85th district. Whitaker was a candidate for Arkansas's 3rd congressional district in the 2010 election.
Major General Thomas E. Ayres is a retired American military lawyer who served as the 20th Deputy Judge Advocate General of the United States Army. On January 18,2018,President Donald Trump nominated him to become General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force. This nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 15,2018.
Dennis M. McCarthy was a United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General and served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs from June 2009 - April 2011. McCarthy was born in Cleveland,Ohio,and graduated from the University of Dayton and the Capital University Law School.
John Marshall Mitnick is an American lawyer who served as General Counsel for the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Tilman Eugene "Tripp" Self III is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia and a former Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Elizabeth Lee "Lisa" Branch is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She is a former judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Robert Austin Huffaker Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
Mary Bridget Neumayr is an American government official,who served as the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality from 2019 to 2021. She was appointed to the position by President Donald Trump in January 2019 and confirmed by the United States Senate.
Gary Gage Grindler is an American lawyer who served as acting United States Deputy Attorney General in 2010.
Brenda Mallory is an American lawyer specializing in environmental law who is the current chair of the Council on Environmental Quality in the Biden Administration. She previously served as director of regulatory policy at the Southern Environmental Law Center,and helped lead the Climate 21 Project.
