The University of Minnesota Law School is the law school of the University of Minnesota,located in Minneapolis,Minnesota. The school confers four law degrees:a Juris Doctor (J.D.),a Master of Laws (LL.M.),a Master of Science in Patent Law (M.S.P.L.),and a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.). The J.D. program offers a number of concentration opportunities,as well as dual and joint degree options with other graduate and professional schools of the university.
William Mitchell College of Law was a private,independent law school located in St. Paul,Minnesota,United States,from 1956 to 2015. Accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA),it offered full- and part-time legal education in pursuit of the Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree. On December 9,2015,Hamline University School of Law merged into William Mitchell College of Law,and became the Mitchell Hamline School of Law.
The Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Army,also known as the U.S. Army JAG Corps,is the legal arm of the United States Army. It is composed of Army officers who are also lawyers and who provide legal services to the Army at all levels of command,and also includes legal administrator warrant officers,paralegal noncommissioned officers and junior enlisted personnel,and civilian employees.
Russell A. Anderson was an attorney who served as Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He served as an associate justice of the court from September 1,1998 until he was sworn in as chief justice on January 10,2006. He retired from the Supreme Court on June 1,2008,at age 66,and was succeeded by Eric J. Magnuson.
The Coast Guard Judge Advocate General oversees the delivery of legal services to the United States Coast Guard,through the Office of the Judge Advocate General in Washington,the Legal Service Command,offices in the Atlantic and Pacific Areas,nine Coast Guard Districts,the Coast Guard Academy,three training centers,and a number of other activities and commands. Legal services are delivered by Coast Guard judge advocates and civilian counsel in ten legal practice areas:criminal law/military justice,operations,international activities,civil advocacy,environmental law,procurement law,internal organizational law,regulations and administrative law,legislative support and legal assistance.
George Edward MacKinnon was an American politician,attorney,and judge who variously served as a United States representative and United States Attorney for Minnesota,and as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He is also the father of feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon.
The United States Marine Corps' Judge Advocate Division serves both to advise the Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) and other officials in Headquarters,Marine Corps on legal matters,and to oversee the Marine Corps legal community. The head of the Judge Advocate Division (JAD) is the Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant.
Rachel Kunjummen Paulose is an American attorney. She was nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as a United States Attorney. She was the youngest person and the first woman to lead the District of Minnesota.
Marc Warren is a senior counsel in Crowell &Moring's Aviation and Administrative Law &Regulatory practice group. From 2007 until joining Crowell &Moring in April 2014,Marc Warren was the Deputy Chief Counsel for Operations at the Federal Aviation Administration. He had been assigned to the US Army's Judge Advocate General office. He was at the Center for Military Law and Operations. He was a potential defendant in the proposed international war crimes prosecution for the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay torture scandal,undertaken by the German national Wolfgang Kaleck.
Lorie Skjerven Gildea is an American attorney and jurist serving as Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. She served as an associate justice on the Court from 2006 to 2010 and as a district judge for Hennepin County in the Fourth Judicial District from 2005 to 2006.
John Lesch is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),he last represented 66B,which included portions of Saint Paul in Ramsey County,in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. He is a prosecuting attorney for Saint Paul.
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.
William Mitchell was a lawyer and judge notable for his work in Minnesota as a member of the 3rd Minnesota District Court and Minnesota Supreme Court. He was also the first dean of the St. Paul College of Law,later renamed in his honor as the William Mitchell College of Law.
The Judge Advocate General's Corps,also known as JAG or JAG Corps,is the military justice branch or specialty of the U.S. Air Force,Army,Coast Guard,Marine Corps and Navy. Officers serving in the JAG Corps are typically called judge advocates.
Flora Diana Darpino is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and military lawyer who was the 39th Judge Advocate General of the United States Army. She was the first woman to hold that position,which she held from September 4,2013 to July 14,2017.
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.
Nekima Valdez Levy Armstrong is an American lawyer and social justice activist. She served as president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP from 2015 to 2016. She has led a variety of organizations that focus on issues of racial equality and disparity in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. Levy Armstrong was an associate professor of law at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis from 2003 to 2016. After concluding her term as an NAACP chapter president and leaving her academic post,she had an unsuccessful campaign for mayor of Minneapolis in the 2017 election. She has been a prominent local activist in several protests over the killing of black Americans by police officers.
Vice Adm. James Walter Crawford III is a university administrator former United States Navy officer,serving for 34 years before retiring. He is currently the president of Felician University in New Jersey,having assumed the role in June 2021.
John R. Ewers,Jr. is a retired Major General in the United States Marine Corps. He was the 19th Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Donald Joseph Guter is an American educator,lawyer and former United States Navy rear admiral who was the 10th president and dean of South Texas College of Law Houston from 2009 to 2019. He previously served as the 10th dean of the Duquesne University School of Law from 2005 to 2008,when he was dismissed by Duquesne University president Charles J. Dougherty over a tenure battle.
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