(Left) Colonel Edward H. "Ham" Young, November 1947. Young served as the Commandant of The Judge Advocate General's School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 1942 to 1944. The school closed in 1946 but, when it reopened at Fort Myer in 1950, it was once again under the guidance of Colonel Young. He remained the Commandant until the school transferred to its present location in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Because of the School's ever-increasing teaching mission, construction on a 48,500 square-foot North Wing began in January 1988.

(Right) Prior to entering the JAG Department -- and achieving renown as the first Commandant of The Judge Advocate General's School during World War II -- Edward H. "Ham" Young served as an Infantry officer. In this photograph, taken about 1931, then Captain Young poses in his magnificent Packard convertible with his dog.