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Chief legal officer of the U.S. Army
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.
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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
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Name
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Term start
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Term end
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President appointed by
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Secretary served under
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Karl Bendetsen
[3]
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1949
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1950
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Harry Truman
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Gordon Gray
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Francis Shackelford
[4]
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1950
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1952
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Frank Pace
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Bernard A. Monaghan
[4]
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1952
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1953
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Frank Pace,
Robert T. Stevens
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John G. Adams
[4]
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1953
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1955
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Robert T. Stevens
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Frank Millard
[4]
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1955
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1961
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Wilber M. Brucker
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Powell Pierpoint
[4]
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1961
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1963
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John F. Kennedy
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Elvis Jacob Stahr Jr.,
Cyrus Vance
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Joseph A. Califano Jr.
[5]
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1963
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1964
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Cyrus Vance
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Alfred B. Fitt
[6]
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1964
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1967
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Stephen Ailes,
Stanley Rogers Resor
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Robert E. Jordan III
[7]
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1967
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1971
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Stanley Rogers Resor
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Robert W. Berry
[8]
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1971
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1974
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Richard Nixon
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Robert Frederick Froehlke,
Howard Callaway
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Charles D. Ablard
[9]
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1975
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1977
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Gerald Ford
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Martin Richard Hoffmann
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Jill Wine-Volner
[10]
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1977
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1980
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Jimmy Carter
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Clifford Alexander, Jr.
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Sara E. Lister
[11]
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1980
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1980
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Clifford Alexander Jr.
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Delbert Spurlock
[12]
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1981
[13]
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1983
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Ronald Reagan
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John Otho Marsh Jr.
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Susan J. Crawford
[14]
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1983
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1989
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William J. Haynes II
[15]
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1990
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1993
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George H. W. Bush
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Michael P. W. Stone
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William Thaddeus Coleman III
[16]
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1994
[17]
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1999
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Bill Clinton
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Togo D. West Jr.
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Charles A. Blanchard
[18]
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1999
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2001
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Louis Caldera
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Steven J. Morello
[19]
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2001
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2004
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George W. Bush
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Thomas E. White,
Francis J. Harvey
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Brad Carson
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2012
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2014
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Barack Obama
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John M. McHugh
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Alissa Starzak
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2015
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2017
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Eric Fanning,
Patrick Murphy,
Robert M. Speer
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Earl G. Matthews (Acting)
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2017
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2018
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Donald Trump
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Robert M. Speer,
Mark Esper
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James E. McPherson
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2018
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2020
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Mark Esper,
Ryan McCarthy
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Michele Pearce (acting)
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2020
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2021
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Ryan McCarthy
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Craig R. Schmauder (senior official)
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2021
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2022
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Joe Biden
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John E. Whitley (acting),
Christine Wormuth
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Carrie Ricci
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2022
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Incumbent
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Christine Wormuth
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See also
References
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5 U.S.C.
§ 5315
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10 U.S.C.
§ 3019
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Profile from Truman Library
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b
c
d
e
James E. Hewes, Jr., From Root to McNamara: Army Organization and Administration (1975), pp. 381-382
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Jessica Marcy, "Checking in with Joseph A. Califano, Jr.", Kaiser Health News, June 16, 2009
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History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1998), p. 134
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Jordan's Resume
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Obituary
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From Dept. of the Army History Site
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Profile from the Chicago Network
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^ See
Martin Binkin & Mark J. Eitelberg, Blacks and the Military (1982), p. 90, n. 11
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Nomination of Spurlock to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army
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Nomination of Delbert L. Spurlock, Jr., to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. June 29, 1983. p. 2.
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George H.W. Bush nominates Crawford to be Inspector General of the Department of Defense, Nov. 9, 1989
Archived 2011-05-22 at the
Wayback Machine
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Bio from Dept. of Defense
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Tamara Loomis, "Did Affirmative Action Really Hinder Clarence Thomas?", Law.com, 06/02/2008
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^ 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
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"Blanchard Bio from Air Force website". Archived from
the original on 2011-06-28.
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Michelle Bates Deakin, "The U.S. Armed Forces: Diversity Starts at the Top", Diversity and the Bar, Jan./Feb. 2003
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