General Counsel of the Army explained
The General Counsel of the Army (also known as the Army General Counsel, abbreviated AGC) is the chief legal officer of the U.S. Department of the Army and senior legal advisor to the Secretary of the Army.
U.S. law provides that the General Counsel shall be appointed from the civilian life by the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the United States Senate, and that the Secretary of the Army prescribes the duties of the office.
The Office of the General Counsel of the Army also provides legal advice to the Under Secretary of the Army and the five Assistant Secretaries of the Army, as well as other members of the Army Secretariat. The General Counsel of the Army also plays a role in supervising the Office of the Judge Advocate General and the Office of the Chief Counsel of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Partial list of General Counsels of the Army
| Image | Name | Term start | Term end | President appointed by | Secretary served under |
|---|
| Karl Bendetsen[1] | 1949 | 1950 | Harry Truman | Gordon Gray |
| Francis Shackelford[2] | 1950 | 1952 | Frank Pace |
| Bernard A. Monaghan | 1952 | 1953 | Frank Pace, Robert T. Stevens |
| John G. Adams | 1953 | 1955 | Dwight Eisenhower | Robert T. Stevens |
| Frank Millard | 1955 | 1961 | Wilber M. Brucker |
| Powell Pierpoint | 1961 | 1963 | John F. Kennedy | Elvis Jacob Stahr Jr., Cyrus Vance |
| Joseph A. Califano Jr.[3] | 1963 | 1964 | Cyrus Vance |
| Alfred B. Fitt[4] | 1964 | 1967 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Stephen Ailes, Stanley Rogers Resor |
| Robert E. Jordan III[5] | 1967 | 1971 | Stanley Rogers Resor |
| Robert W. Berry[6] | 1971 | 1974 | Richard Nixon | Robert Frederick Froehlke, Howard Callaway |
| Charles D. Ablard[7] | 1975 | 1977 | Gerald Ford | Martin Richard Hoffmann |
| Jill Wine-Volner[8] | 1977 | 1980 | Jimmy Carter | Clifford Alexander, Jr. |
| Sara E. Lister[9] | 1980 | 1980 | Clifford Alexander Jr. |
| Delbert Spurlock[10] | 1981[11] | 1983 | Ronald Reagan | John Otho Marsh Jr. |
| Susan J. Crawford[12] | 1983 | 1989 |
| William J. Haynes II[13] | 1990 | 1993 | George H. W. Bush | Michael P. W. Stone |
| William Thaddeus Coleman III[14] | 1994[15] | 1999 | Bill Clinton | Togo D. West Jr. |
| Charles A. Blanchard[16] | 1999 | 2001 | Louis Caldera |
| Steven J. Morello[17] | 2001 | 2004 | George W. Bush | Thomas E. White, Francis J. Harvey |
| Brad Carson | 2012 | 2014 | Barack Obama | John M. McHugh |
| Alissa Starzak | 2015 | 2017 | Eric Fanning, Patrick Murphy, Robert M. Speer |
| Earl G. Matthews (Acting) | 2017 | 2018 | Donald Trump | Robert M. Speer, Mark Esper |
| James E. McPherson | 2018 | 2020 | Mark Esper, Ryan McCarthy |
| Michele Pearce (acting) | 2020 | 2021 | Ryan McCarthy |
| Craig R. Schmauder (senior official) | 2021 | 2022 | Joe Biden | John E. Whitley (acting), Christine Wormuth |
| Carrie Ricci | 2022 | Incumbent | Christine Wormuth | |
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Notes and References
- http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/bendet.htm Profile from Truman Library
- Web site: James E. Hewes, Jr., From Root to McNamara: Army Organization and Administration (1975), pp. 381-382 . 2010-12-29 . 2017-01-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170123130338/http://www.history.army.mil/books/root/appB.htm . dead .
- http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Checking-In-With/califano.aspx Jessica Marcy, "Checking in with Joseph A. Califano, Jr.", Kaiser Health News, June 16, 2009
- https://books.google.com/books?id=EKieF_-ycGkC&pg=PA134 History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1998), p. 134
- http://www.dcchs.org/JohnHPickering/pickering_jordan_resume.pdf Jordan's Resume
- http://wsm.wsu.edu/mystory/index.php/2011/12/in-memoriam-robert-w-berry Obituary
- Web site: From Dept. of the Army History Site . 2011-02-11 . 2012-09-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120926085538/http://www.history.army.mil/books/DAHSUM/1977/dapo.htm . dead .
- http://www.thechicagonetwork.org/?page=WineBanksJ Profile from the Chicago Network
- See Martin Binkin & Mark J. Eitelberg, Blacks and the Military (1982), p. 90, n. 11
- Web site: Nomination of Spurlock to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army . 2010-12-29 . 2014-10-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141015235317/http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1983/51383a.htm . dead .
- Book: Nomination of Delbert L. Spurlock, Jr., to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army . June 29, 1983 . 2 . U.S. Government Printing Office . Washington, D.C..
- http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=17781 George H.W. Bush nominates Crawford to be Inspector General of the Department of Defense, Nov. 9, 1989
- http://www.dod.gov/dodgc/gc/gcbio.html Bio from Dept. of Defense
- http://www.law.com/jsp/law/LawArticleFriendly.jsp?id=1202421827466 Tamara Loomis, "Did Affirmative Action Really Hinder Clarence Thomas?", Law.com, 06/02/2008
- He had served three and a half years as of March 28, 1998, according to "Army's Top Lawyer Cleared of Charges", Los Angeles Times, March 28, 1998
- Web site: Blanchard Bio from Air Force website . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110628181731/http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=12435 . 2011-06-28 .
- Web site: Michelle Bates Deakin, "The U.S. Armed Forces: Diversity Starts at the Top", Diversity and the Bar, Jan./Feb. 2003 . 2010-12-29 . 2011-07-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110714055828/http://www.mcca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=1365 . dead .
