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Meet the JOL Program's

Military Judicial Fellow

Colonel Tara Osborn, U.S. Army (Ret.) - Email: [email protected]

Pinehurst, NC

The Honorable Colonel Tara Osborn, U.S. Army (Ret.) is the first American Bar Association (ABA) Military Judicial Fellow. Tara Osborn is a retired Army colonel and military lawyer who served as the 21st Chief Trial Judge of the U.S. Army where she presided over felony criminal trials, which included capital cases, oversaw judicial operations at military installations worldwide, and led all active duty and reserve judges of the Army Trial Judiciary. Before her appointment to the trial bench, she completed a U.S. Army War College fellowship as Special Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC.  She brings decades of legal, judicial, and trial experience with the U.S. Government to her current service on faculty of the National Judicial College and as a member of the Military Justice Review Panel, a blue-ribbon commission chartered by Congress to conduct independent reviews of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.  She has taught extensively for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on the unique issues confronting judges in servicemember impaired driving cases.

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