LAMP Distinguished Service Award - Winners
Award Winners
Each year the Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel has the honor of selecting recipients of the LAMP Distinguished Service Awards. Those chosen for the Award are individuals and units judged to have set the bar for military legal assistance, by pushing themselves and their practices in extraordinary ways.
Many Americans seem to assume the Judge Advocates only practice in the areas of military justice and operational law—an impression long reinforced in film, television and the media. But the average servicemember knows and appreciates that most military legal services performed by JAG officers and their civilian-lawyer counterparts fall under the legal assistance banner. These civil-law legal services address the same everyday consumer law, family law, landlord-tenant and other legal problems that entangle civilians, with the added complication that deployed servicemembers are entitled to extra legal protection when deployed thousands of miles from their home jurisdictions, and the understanding that unresolved legal issues imperil military morale and readiness.
To the average servicemember, then, the most important military lawyer is the one who works to get him or her out of a jam with a creditor, a landlord, a former spouse or a civilian court, or who makes sure his or her estate is in order before deployment.
The LAMP Distinguished Service Award program shines a light on those blazing paths in military legal assistance, that others might follow. This year as in years past, all of the nominees of the two uniformed services for the LAMP Distinguished Service Award deserve credit for outstanding performance. The Committee has selected the following recipients the 2012 LAMP Distinguished Service Awards.
2012 Award Winners
Air Force
31st Fighter Wing, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Aviano Air Base, Italy
31 FW/JA continues to offer world–class legal assistance services to its varied overseas clientele consisting of over 8,000 personnel and dependents and 1,789 Airmen who deployed around the world. In 2012, the office pushed it up several notches by implementing new initiatives and addressing unique legal assistance issues affecting large numbers of their clients. 31 FWIJA attorneys and paralegals created a comprehensive client engagement system by combining a webpage, Facebook, and mobile "apps" for use by its clientele. The system is updated at least weekly and integrates with the new MyMCW ("My Military Communities") smartphone application. A renewed focus on the tax assistance program resulted in a three–fold increase in two years: In 2010, the office processed $750,000 in refunds, which increased to $2.5 million in 2012. One of the secrets of its success was the establishment of satellite tax preparation kiosks around base, including in the Airmen dorms, medical clinic, and dining facilities. 31 FW/JA was instrumental in resolving two unique issues affecting their clients in 2012. When hundreds of clients faced cancellation of their telephone service due to the company no longer accepting credit cards issued by American banks, the legal office immediately engaged with local government offices and the telephone company to arrange alternate payment options. Another issue resolved concerned the Italian government levying fees of several thousand dollars per person against several clients, totaling approximately $33,000. After working closely with multiple Italian agencies, the office was able to discover that the fees should have been charged to landlords, not tenants, and all clients were released from liability. In addition to the legal assistance and outreach efforts provided on Aviano Air Base, the legal assistance staff supported multiple geographically separated units, including regular visits to a multi–nation coalition entity in Papa, Hungary. All of the work done by 31 FW/JA epitomizes the characteristics sought out for recognition by this Distinguished Service Award.
Air Force
Captain Joe Ahlers, Chief of Legal Assistance, 97th Air Mobility Wing, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Altus Air Force Base, OK
As Chief of Legal Assistance, Capt Joe Ahlers has literally set the standard for a Chief of Legal Assistance. Capt Ahlers referred cases to three separate groups: Texas Lawyers for Texas Veterans, Oklahoma Lawyers for America's Heroes, and the ABA Military Pro Bono Project. He also laid the foundation for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USIS) to make its first trip to Altus AFB to assist military members in filing immigration paperwork. In light of the changed military Family Care Plan requirements, he produced two standard forms to track and ensure compliance at the base level and spent 52 off–duty hours authoring a 3,500–
word article for The Reporter to brief the Corps on how the change will impact non–custodial parent custody battles. Capt Ahlers reached out to the Oklahoma Bar Association to volunteer as a CLE instructor on military law/ legal assistance and ended up being invited to the Bar's conference as a guest of the Executive Director, where he networked with attorneys across Oklahoma, encouraged participation in the ABA Pro Bono and Operation Stand–By projects, and promoted service in local legal aid/ pro bono opportunities geared towards military service members. He also coordinated an immersion visit from the local county bar association, which resulted in Capt Ahlers being invited as a personal guest to deliver the same briefing to a gathering of civic leaders. His individual accomplishments range from assisting clients with estate inheritance issues, to voter rights of a convicted Airman, and culminated in shielding 20+ military families from being sued in a clash between local businesses. Capt Ahlers is the example our military services should look to for both managing a legal assistance program and providing superior service directly to the warfighter. His work ethic and professionalism are unquestionable, and his superior performance made him the clear choice to provide enhanced legal assistance as our base Special Victims' Counsel. All of this makes him a deserving individual for the Distinguished Service Award.
Army
Joerg C. Moddelmog, Senior German Attorney–Advisor, Kaiserslautern Legal Services Center
Joerg C. Moddelmog has served as a German Attorney–Advisor with U.S. Army Europe (USAREUR) since 1996. Mr. Moddelmog draws on his extraordinary linguistic skills and first–hand experience of American culture to make complicated German legal concepts easy for Americans to comprehend. As he has every year since 1997, he teaches classes at the USAREUR Legal Assistance CLE, covering everything from German Landlord–Tenant Law, to Consumer Law, to International Law Aspects of Legal Assistance. He brings this same approach to the library of helpful client handouts he has authored on a wide variety of German and European legal topics. Mr. Moddelmog's thorough knowledge of the NATO Status of Forces Agreement and its German Supplementary Agreement enables him to assist his clients and protect the legal interests of the U.S. as a Sending State, particularly where there is an issue involving treaty personnel status and related benefits. Mr. Moddelmog has identified himself as the only German Legal Assistance Attorney in Europe who is willing to see clients with complicated German tax issues; clients from as far away as Stuttgart and Bamberg have driven hundreds of kilometers to seek his wise counsel and representation. Mr. Moddehnog's extraordinary work ethic, prodigious publishing of preventive law handouts and articles, highly effective teaching and mentoring, and his exemplary efforts to protect American service members and DoD civilian employees from host nation taxation of their salaries sets him apart from his contemporaries. No other attorney has done more to help legal assistance practitioners throughout the Armed Forces advise their clients on how matters are handled under German or European law. His unparalleled record of accomplishment in the field of legal assistance richly warrants recognition by the American Bar Association.
Coast Guard
Mr. Stephen Lynch, Legal Assistance Attorney, Ninth District Legal Office, Cleveland, OH
Mr. Stephen Lynch is the sole legal assistance attorney assigned to U.S. Coast Guard members serving throughout the Great Lakes in District Nine, a command with over 6,000 personnel in an area of responsibility that spans eight states from Massena, New York, to Lake of the Woods, Minnesota. Mr. Lynch's daily legal services include, but are not limited to, estate planning , domestic relations, landlord–tenant disputes, immigration law, identity theft, real property , and debt collection. Throughout the calendar year, Mr. Lynch opened more than 550 new legal assistance matters. Of those new clients, Mr. Lynch provided estate planning to at least 140 servicemen and eligible dependents, approximately eighty–five family law matters, to include child custody, separation, and divorce, and at least 130 other matters involving consumer protection, immigration, landlord–tenant disputes, and debt collection. In collaboration with an Army Colonel judge advocate, Mr. Lynch created a first–rate Ohio guide to the Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act. Mr. Lynch distributed the guide statewide and has used it to educate the Ohio judiciary. He also led an effort in Ohio to enact the Expanded Legal Assistance Program (ELAP) by developing a draft set of rules for the Ohio Supreme Court's consideration, gave presentations to executive officers for all of the major metropolitan bar associations, and regularly advised Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Stratton, an advocate and key proponent of the new law, which became effective on January 1, 2013. Mr. Lynch frequently receives personal requests to teach legal assistance classes throughout the Coast Guard and the Department of Defense, and he maintains a cadre of pro bono attorneys to assist servicemembers whenever and wherever local counsel might best serve the client. Mr. Lynch's evaluations are replete with praise, and he is a deserving public servant for the Distinguished Service Award.
Marine Corps
Legal Assistance Office, Legal Service Support Team, MCRD Parris Island, SC
The LSST PI Legal Assistance office has unfailingly created a positive impact far in excess of their minimal numbers in the face of serious budget constraints and logistical challenges. The office atmosphere is one of devotion to client service and to the mission of the Marine Corps and exemplifies the flexibility, service–oriented representation, and initiative–minded ethic required in a resource–constrained environment. Despite a service–wide Legal Community reorganization, the office not only maintained its mission to support MCRD Parris Island and the three recruiting districts that make up the Eastern Recruiting Region, but also managed to obtain a separate building to consolidate legal assistance personnel to support added legal service requirements at MCAS Beaufort, SC and MCLB Albany, GA. The office's dedication to maximizing its reach; creation of programs to benefit the Marine Corps, and effective resolution of client legal issues is nothing short of exemplary. Among its many accomplishments has been its launch of the USMC pilot Expedited Immigration and Naturalization Program for recruits at Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD), Parris Island. Providing non–citizen recruits the opportunity to obtain expedited U.S. citizenship when they first come into the Marine Corps is extremely important because, although non–citizen Marines can be naturalized at their first duty station and overseas during deployment, processing time can interfere with military commitments. Additionally, U.S. citizenship is required for certain Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) and for security clearances. In directly addressing these issues, the program benefits the recruits and the Marine Corps; the pilot has been so successful that it is being implemented for recruits at MCRD, San Diego, CA. The LSST PI Legal Assistance office is an outstanding Distinguished Service Award recipient for its continuous exceptional service to the armed forces legal assistance effort.
Marine Corps
Captain William Morrison, Officer–in–Charge, Legal Assistance Office, Camp Foster Okinawa
Captain William Morrison, Officer–in–Charge (OIC) LAO, LSST Okinawa, LSSS, MCI PAC, has distinguished himself above and beyond his peers. His unwavering dedication to his clients and the Marine Corps legal assistance mission are worthy of special recognition. Captain Morrison has excelled in the extremely demanding and challenging position of Officer–in–Charge (OIC) of the Camp Foster Okinawa Legal Assistance Office. He was assigned to this billet as an inexperienced First Lieutenant just graduated from the Naval Justice School. Through his dedication and hard work, he rose to the occasion and transcended expectations that would have been placed on a senior Captain in the same position. His initiative and resourcefulness ensured superior legal support to over 50,000 military personnel, dependents, retirees, civilian employees and contractors of the Department of Defense. Supervising the Legal Assistance Office presents many unique challenges compared to other offices in the Marine Corps, both because of its location overseas and as a result of the vast expanse of its mission. In the face of these challenges, Captain Morrison quickly adapted and set up internal procedures and office competencies that will last beyond his tenure as OIC. Captain Morrison also operates a satellite office at the northern part of the island in order to better serve the junior Marines who did not have transportation to come to main office at Camp Foster, thereby ensuring minimal interruption to their own duties in support of their mission. During the tax season, he operated a full–service Tax Center. Captain Morrison also personally provided legal assistance to over 800 clients in a wide array of complex legal matters. Recognizing the language barrier experienced by many foreign national clients, Captain Morrison recruited a Japanese national as a civilian volunteer to provide translation services, thus ensuring those clients were provided the same high quality attorney consultation that other clients received. As a leader of Marines, professional attorney, and superior manager Captain Morrison has undoubtedly proven himself worth of recognition with the Distinguished Service Award.
Navy
Region Legal Service Office Southwest
Region Legal Service Office (RLSO) Southwest provided exceptional legal assistance for military personnel, military dependents, and military retirees in the Navy's largest West Coast Fleet concentration area. RLSO Southwest legal assistance personnel provided 38,000 services to individual clients and customers, including drafting and executing nearly 3,000 estate planning documents. The numbers themselves are extraordinary and evince the tremendous commitment and outreach RLSO Southwest provided to thousands of service members, dependents, and retirees who work and reside in Navy Region Southwest. RLSO Southwest supported thousands of personnel who deployed in support of combat operations around the globe from West Coast based units. The command provided significant support in naturalization and immigration matters, divorce and adoption filings, harnessed local resources to preserve the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) rights of deployed personnel, and participated in a unique and comprehensive outreach program that assisted over 1,000 homeless and needy veterans. RLSO Southwest's legal assistance achievements have been significant, meaningful, far–reaching, and merit RLSO Southwest's selection for the Distinguished Service Award.
Navy
Ms. Sarah Courageous, Legal Assistance Attorney, Region Legal Service Office Hawaii
Ms. Sarah Courageous currently serves as a civilian Legal Assistance Attorney assigned to RLSO Hawaii at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam. She provides legal assistance services primarily to Navy and Air Force personnel, dependents, and retirees. In 2012, Ms. Courageous provided support to a community comprised of nearly 78,000 military personnel and dependents, and hundreds of commands. She personally provided legal assistance services for over 1,000 clients and customers and worked extended hours to assist deploying service members and special needs clients. Notably, Ms. Courageous served as the sole legal assistance attorney for three months during the command's transition of legal assistance services as part of a larger Naval Legal Service Command realignment. In addition to providing exceptional legal assistance, Ms. Courageous trained six new judge advocates, a civilian attorney, and three paralegals. Focused on professional development, Ms. Courageous spearheaded a joint legal assistance program, elevating the knowledge and provision of legal assistance across the Services in offices throughout Hawaii. Mrs. Courageous is an exceptionally talented and hard– working attorney and civil servant. Her professionalism is unmatched, and her devotion to her clients is second to none, for which she is selected as a Distinguished Service Award recipient.
Special Recognition
CAPT Kevin Patrick Flood, JAGC, USN (Ret.), Law Office of Kevin Patrick Flood, Jacksonville, FL
As an innovator, Kevin Flood developed and established policies and procedures in legal assistance and estate planning that are still the mark by which others are measured. As a teacher, he served as an instructor at the Naval Justice School, the Army Judge Advocate General's School, and the Air Force JAG School. He also provided training at national and state legal forums. As a leader, Kevin Flood was selected as the first Program Manager for the Naval Reserve Law Program. He was chosen as the Navy's first civilian regional director for the legal assistance program. He served as the chair of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Assistance to Military Personnel (LAMP), and the Vice Chair of the Government Lawyers Committee, General Practice Section. As a mentor, Kevin Flood's selfless actions educated, mentored, motivated and inspired thousands of military and civilian attorneys, who in turn touched and improved the lives of tens of thousands of servicemembers. Kevin raised the bar for legal assistance practice and in doing so brought the provision of legal services to new levels. His students and protégées embody his energy, dedication, and spirit making legal assistance across the Services a better practice. Kevin's professionalism, innovation, and steadfast devotion to the provision of legal assistance have reflected great credit upon himself and are in keeping with the highest traditions of service. The Distinguished Service Award recognizes individuals for significant innovation in the legal assistance practice, demonstrated superior effort beyond routine duties, and exceptional service to, or in support of, the armed forces legal assistance effort, and Kevin Flood has met and exceeded these standards.
Special Recognition
COL Mark E. Sullivan, USAR (Ret.), Law Offices of Mark E. Sullivan, P.A., Raleigh, NC
Mark Sullivan provided exceptional service to the armed forces' legal assistance effort in 2012. He did so without any current formal military affiliation and while maintaining responsibility for a civilian family law practice in North Carolina. What made his contributions so remarkable is that, while he certainly deserves a Distinguished Service Award for this year, Mark has maintained a comparable level of assistance for decades. He is arguably the most prolific source of military legal assistance education outside of the service JAG Schools, and that is not an entirely fair comparison since he did teach for the Army in Charlottesville in 2012. He uses a network of military and civilian connections to publish informative articles and teach numerous continuing legal education (CLE) classes that are invaluable to a legal assistance practitioner. He had numerous articles printed by 21 publications in 17 states, as well as several in national publications. He taught 17 CLEs in 8 states and the Virgin Islands that were sponsored by bar associations and other organizations, including one for the ABA LAMP committee. In addition to these formal engagements, Mark spends a considerable amount of time answering specific questions from individual attorneys, both military and civilian, across the country. Many weeks he devoted 10–15 hours providing expert advice on extremely complex family law topics. Mark is very active in keeping up with current legislative initiatives throughout the country on military custody matters, having been instrumental in the passage of North Carolina's military custody statute years ago. He completed his term this year serving on a committee of the Uniform Law Commission, which was charged with drafting "THE UNIFORM DEPLOYED PARENT CUSTODY AND VISITATION ACT." This effort will hopefully bring some consistency and predictability to military custody cases as states enact the uniform law. Finally, he found the time to update his Clerks and Workers Guide, a resource for clerks of court and child support case workers on military support enforcement. This publication serves as a valuable tool for explaining the requirements of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act in North Carolina. Mark Sullivan is undoubtedly one of the most respected voices within the legal assistance community and has been for many years.
Past Award Recipients
2011
35th Fighter Wing, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Misawa Air Force Base, Japan
Lieutenant Andrew Coffin, JAGC, USN, Naval Legal Service Office Pacific (Guam)
Coast Guard District Seventeen Legal Office, Juneau, AK
Ms. Elizabeth K. Fuglestad, Legal Assistance Attorney, Thirteenth District Legal Office, Seattle, WA
Joint Legal Assistance Office (LAO), Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, CA
Ms. Leah Copeland, Legal Assistance Attorney, 633d Air Base Wing, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Joint Base Langley-Eustis (JBLE), VA
Mr. Michael Archer, Director of Legal Assistance, Marine Corps Installations East, Camp Lejeune, NC
Naval Legal Service Office Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia (NLSO EURAFSWA)
Mr. Terry Spearman, Paralegal, XVIII Airborne Corps, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Legal Assistance, Fort Bragg, NC
2010
Mr. Charles P. "Chuck" Koutras, Legal Assistance Attorney, US Army South, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Fort Sam Houston, TX
Reserve Judge Advocate Command Support Section, Legal Services Support Section, Marine Forces Reserve (RJACSS)
355 FW/JA, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Legal Office, Tucson, AZ
Mr. Brian Novak, Chief of Legal Assistance Division and Tax Center Manager, 502 Air Base Group, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, TX
Naval Legal Service Office Mid-Atlantic (NLSO MIDLANT), Norfolk, VA
LT Matthew C. Cox, JAGC, USN, Naval Legal Service Office Pacific (Pearl Harbor, Hawaii)
North Carolina National Guard (NCNG), NC
2009
Coast Guard Legal Assistance Field Response Team for Lost CG-1705 Aircraft, Alameda, CA
Legal Assistance Division, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Maneuver Center for Excellence, Fort Benning, GA
3d Infantry Division and Fort Stewart Office of the Staff Judge Advocate Legal Assistance Team, GA
Consolidated Legal Service Office, Camp LeJeune, NC
86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany
LT Garrett S. Snow, JAGC, USN, Naval Legal Service Office Pacific, Yokosuka, Japan
LtCol Adam E. Torem, USAFR, 11th Air Force, Elmendorf Air Force Base, AK.
2008
6th Air Mobility Wing, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida
Warner-Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia
Mr. George Sabga, Volunteer, Naval Legal Service Office Southwest
Naval Legal Service Office Pacific
2007
Lieutenant Graham C. Winegeart, JAGC, Naval Legal Service Office Pacific, Detachment Guam
Lieutenant Michele V. Rosen, JAGC, Region Legal Service Office, Europe and Southwest Asia, Naples, Italy
Legal Assistance Office, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina
48th Fighter Wing, Legal Assistance and Preventive Law Division, RAF Lakenheath, UK
Maintenance and Logistics Command Atlantic, General Law Branch, Legal Division
2006
Lieutenant Colonel Ferah Ozbek, Patrick AFB, FL
Legal Assistance Office, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) & Fort Campbell, KY
Legal Assistance Office, Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, Beaufort, SC
Naval Legal Service Office North Central, Washington, DC
2005
Major Michael R. Martinez, Fort Carson, CO
81st Training Wing (81 TRW), Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Keesler Air Force Base, MS
Third Infantry Division and Fort Stewart, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate Legal Assistance Office, Fort Stewart, GA
Coast Guard Hurricane Response Legal Assistance Team
- CG Academy, New London, CT
- CG Headquarters (COMDT G-L-6), Washington, DC
- CG MLCA Legal Division, Norfolk, VA
- CG MLCP Legal Division, Alameda, CA
- Eighth CG District, New Orleans, LAFirst CG District, Boston, MA
- Integrated Support Command Kodiak, Kodiak, AK
- Ninth CG District, Cleveland, OH
- Seventh CG District, Miami, FL
- Thirteenth CG District, Seattle, WA
Naval Legal Service Office Central, Pensacola, FL
Mr. Dwain Alexander, Navy Legal Service Office (NLSO) Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, VA
2004
Ms. Lisa J. Johnson, Paralegal, Navy Legal Service Office (NLSO) Southeast, Jacksonville, FL
Captain Eric S. Montalvo, Trial Counsel, OSJA, MCB, Quantico, VA
Captain Luisa Santiago, Chief, Legal Assistance/Foreign Claims, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Headquarters, Combined Joint Task Force 73, Bagram, Afghanistan
Lieutenant Jonathan Scott Simpson, Branch Head, Naval Legal Service Office Europe and Southwest Asia, London, UK
“TEAM PACAF”: Headquarters, Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), 15th Airlift Wing (PACAF), 354th
Fighter Wing (PACAF) and 154 Wing (Hawaii Air National Guard), Hickam Air Force Base, HI
2003
Mr. Kenyon E. Luce, Washington State Bar Association
Captain Pete Seidler, Head, United States Coast Guard Office of Legal Policy & Program Development
Lieutenant Jeremy Kimball Call, NLSO PAC, Yokosuka, Japan
Lieutenant Edward K. Westbrook, NLSO SW Branch Office, Naval Air Station Leemore, California
311th Support Command Corps (COSCOM)
2002
Legal Assistance Office, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego CA
Naval Legal Service Office Southeast, Jacksonville, FL
Captain Brandy Falk
Colonel George Hancock
Mr. Stephen Lynch
Captain Samuel F. Wright
2001
Joint Services Family Assistance Center Legal Team
September 11th Pro Bono Legal Relief Project
Colonel John S. Odom, Jr.
Captain Bruce E. MacDonald
Captain Jerry Alonzo Stevenson II
Captain Steven Fromm
2000
Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Legal Office, Georgia
Task Force Falcon Legal Assistance Office, Office of the Legal Advisor, Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo
Mr. Paul K. Davis, Southeast Regional Office, Federal Trade Commission, Georgia
Maintenance & Logistics Command Pacific Legal Assistance Program, California
Joint Legal Assistance Office, Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California
Naval Legal Service Office Southwest, San Diego, California
1999
Legal Assistance Office, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, CA
Legal Assistance Office, Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA
Mr. Lou Sherman and the Fort Polk Legal Assistance Division, Ft. Polk, LA
3WG/JA Legal Assistance Program, Elmendorf Air Force Base, AK
Captain James Key, USAF, Anderson Air Force Base, Guam
Mr. John McHenry, Naval Legal Service Office Southwest, San Diego, CA
1998
Naval Legal Service Office Northwest, Naval Base Seattle, WA
Task Force Eagle Legal Assistance Office, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Tuzla, Bosnia Herzegovina
Mr. Jim Brennan, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Fort Eustis, VA
Legal Assistance Section, Client Services Division, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Fort Sam Houston, TX
Lieutenant Brandon S. Keith, JAGC, USNR, Naval Legal Service Office, Southeast Detachment, Mayport, FL
Captain Theresa Bruno, USAF, Peterson Air Force Base, CO
1997
Captain Aaron E. Kornblum, USAF, F.E. Warren Air Force Base, WY
Mr. Kenyon E. Luce, Washington State Bar Association
Ms. Robin Coll, Civilian, Naval Legal Service Office, Mid-Atlantic
1996
US Army 2nd Infantry Division Tax Center
Lieutenant Commander Ronald Johnson, JAGC, U.S. Navy, Naval Justice School, Newport, RI
Legal Assistance Office, Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, NE
Legal Division, Coast Guard Maintenance and Logistics Command Atlantic
Mr. Richard Arkow, Chief, Marine Corps Legal Assistance Consolidated Legal Assistance Office, Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, NC
Legal Assistance Office, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC
Legal Assistance Division, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Fort Benning, GA
Legal Assistance Office, Joint Law Center, Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, Santa Ana, CA
Legal Assistance Office, Legal Services Center, Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe, HI
1995
Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Block, USA, Chief, Legal Assistance Branch, The U.S. Army Judge
Advocates Generals' School, Charlottesville, VA
Elisa Holland, Eighth Coast Guard District Legal Office, New Orleans, March, 1995
Angel Caldwell, Eighth Coast Guard District Legal Office, New Orleans, March, 1995
Joint Legal Assistance Office, Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, CA
Naval Legal Service Office, Southeast Jacksonville, FL
1994
Lieutenant James Walsh, JAGC, USNR, Naval Legal Service Office Northeast, Groton, CT
Lieutenant Colonel George Hancock, USA, The U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, VA
Captain Samuel W. Morris, USA, 1st Infantry Division (Mech) and Fort Riley, Fort Riley, KS
Mr. Jerry E. Shiles, Chief, Legal Assistance Division, 21st Theater Army Area Command Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, NC
Naval Legal Service Office, Europe and Southwest Asia
Colonel Alfred F. Arquilla, USA, Chief, Army Legal Assistance
1993
Captain Laurel L. Wilkerson, USA, Legal Assistance Division, Office of the Judge Advocate General, U. S. Army
Major Mary L. Hostetter, USMC, The U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, VA
Captain Kerry M. Wheelehan, USA, Chief of Legal Assistance, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, NC
Captain Janet K. Mansfield, USA, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, HQ, I Corps and Fort Lewis, WA
Consolidated Legal Assistance Office, Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, NC
Mr. Gunter D. Filippucci, Chief of Legal Assistance, Southern Law Center, Mannheim, Germany
Mr. Daniel McKernan, Fort Bliss, TX
1992
Mr. Juan J. Turull Echevarria, Coast Guard Greater Antilles Section, San Juan, PR
Legal Division, Coast Guard Maintenance and Logistics Command, Atlantic Legal Office, 7th Coast Guard District
Legal Assistance Office, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, NY
Captain Michael McWright,USA, 24th Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, GA
Captain Kurt D. Schmidt, USA, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, NC
Captain Julie Schrenk, USA, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, NC
Office of the District Counsel, Jacksonville District, South Atlantic Divison, US Army Corps of Engineers
Air Force legal personnel involved in the Hurricane Andrew relief efforts
1991
Naval Legal Service Office, Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines
Legal Assistance Offices, Clark Air Force Base, Philippines and Andersen Air Force Base, Guam
Naval Legal Service Office, Jacksonville, FL
1990
Legal Assistance Office, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Warner Robins, GA
Lieutenant Commander Jay J. Kessler, JAGC, USN, Naval Legal Service Office, San Francisco, CA
The Judge Advocate General, U.S. Army
The Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy
The Judge Advocate General, U.S. Air Force
The Director, Judge Advocate Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps
The Chief Counsel, U.S. Coast Guard
Lieutenant Colonel Gregory M. Huckabee, USA, Deputy Chief, Army Legal Assistance
Major James P. Pottorff, Jr.,USA, The U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, VA
1989
Captain Anthony M. Cacavio, USAF, Eglin Air Force Base, FL
Naval Legal Service Office, San Diego, CA
Family Law Center, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, 25th Infantry Division (Light), Schofield Barracks, HI
Major Bernard P. Ingold, USA, The U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, VA
1988
Naval Legal Service Office, Naval Base, Charleston, SC
Major General Hugh R. Overholt, USA, Judge Advocate General, U.S. Army
1987
Major Richard H. McCall, Jr., USA, Chief, Legal Assistance Division, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, NC
The Office of the Attorney General, State of North Carolina
Chief Petty Officer Stephen C. Bowles, USCG
1986
Captain Joseph P. Dugdale, USMC
Major Steven K. Mulliken, USA
Legal Assistance Office, U.S. Army, Berlin
1985
Consolidated Legal Assistance Section, Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, NC
Major Charles W. Hemingway, USA
Gander Legal Assistance Support Team, U.S. Army
Legal Assistance Office, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, CA
Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Plattsburgh Air Force Base, NY
1984
Elmendorf Base Legal Office, Elmendorf Air Force Base, AK
1983
Legal Assistance Office, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Fort Dix, NJ
Joint Legal Assistance Office, Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, CA
Major Harlan M. "Mike" Heffelfinger, USA
1982
Captain Timothy J. Grendell, USA
Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, RAF, Alconbury, England
Major J. Edward Reaves, Jr., JAGC, USAF
Captain Steven H. Muse, USA, Chief of Legal Assistance Office, Fort Sam Houston, TX
Legal Assistance Office, U.S. Army Garrison, Fort Sam Houston, TX
1981
Legal Assistance Office, U.S. Army Air Defense Center and Fort Bliss, Fort Bliss, TX
Legal Assistance Office, Air Force Systems Command
Lieutenant Byron C. Rhodes, JAGC, USNR
Nellis Law Center, Nellis Air Force Base, NV
Legal Assistance Branch, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, 7th Infantry Division and Fort Ord, CA
Lieutenant Leonard F. Villa, JAGC, USNR, Naval Service Office, Norfolk, VA
1980
Legal Assistance Office, Naval Legal Service Office, San Diego, CA
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Buchanan, Legal Assistance Attorney, Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa
1979
Legal Assistance Office, Patrick Air Force Base, Satellite Beach, FL
Mr. James Costello, Legal Assistance Attorney, Seventh Coast Guard District, Miami, FL
Legal Assistance Office, 2nd Armored Division, Fort Hood, TX
Other Awards
Updated: 05/17/2013
