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Major General (Retired) Thomas E. Ayres

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41st Annual Charles L. Decker Lecture in Administrative & Civil Law

Presented on December 2, 2024 by Major General (Retired) Thomas E. Ayres

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Major General (Retired) Thomas E. Ayres

41st Annual Charles L. Decker Lecture in Administrative & Civil Law

 

Remarks delivered on December 2, 2024 by Major General (Retired) Thomas E. Ayres for the 41st Annual Charles L. Decker Lecture in Administrative & Civil Law, at The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, Virginia. Major General Ayres served from 2013-2017 as the 20th Deputy Judge Advocate General of the United States Army. Upon retirement from the Army, Major General Ayres served as the 24th General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force. He currently serves as the General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer at Starlab Space, a U.S. led international joint venture in space exploration.

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Thirty-Ninth Major General Charles L. Decker Lecture in Administrative & Civil Law

 

Remarks delivered on October 17, 2022 by The Honorable Elena Kagan, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, at The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Lieutenant General (Retired) Flora D. Darpino

2nd Annual Kenneth Gray & Phyllis Propp-Fowle Lecture on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Remarks delivered on March 28, 2023 by Lieutenant General (Retired) Flora D. Darpino for the 2d Annual Kenneth Gray & Phyllis Propp-Fowle Lecture on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, at The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, Virginia. Lieutenant General Darpino served from 2013-2017 as the 39th Judge Advocate General of the United States Army. She was the first woman to hold that position.

Major General (Retired) Kenneth Gray

Inaugural Kenneth Gray & Phyllis Propp-Fowle Lecture on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Remarks delivered on May 5, 2022 by Major General (Retired) Kenneth Gray for the inaugural Kenneth Gray & Phyllis Propp-Fowle Lecture on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, at The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, Virginia. Major General Gray served from 1993-1997 as The Assistant Judge Advocate General of the Army (now known as the Deputy Judge Advocate General or DJAG).

Professor David M. Crane

Sixteenth George S. Prugh Lecture in Military Legal History

Remarks delivered on April 21, 2023 by Professor David M. Crane for the Sixteenth George S. Prugh Lecture in Military Legal History, at The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, Virginia. Professor Crane served over 30 years in the U.S. government as both an active duty Army lawyer (retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel) and then in the Senior Executive Service as the Director of the Office of Intelligence Review, Department of Defense. He then was appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations to be the founding Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone from 2002-2005, and later served as a member of the faculty of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, a joint venture with the Maxwell School of Public Citizenship at Syracuse University.

Calvin M. Lederer

Fourth Thomas J. Romig Lecture On Principled Legal Practice

Remarks delivered on September 11, 2023 by Calvin M. Lederer for the Fourth Thomas J. Romig Lecture on Principled Legal Practice, at The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, Virginia. Mr. Lederer is the Deputy Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Coast Guard and was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in June 2002 after his retirement as a colonel in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, U.S. Army. This lecture is in honor of Major General (Retired) Thomas J. Romig.