Current Employment Position
- Of Counsel
Past Positions
- Illinois Senate from the 58th district, Member, 2017 to 2021
- Marine Corps Installations Command, Staff Judge Advocate, 2011 to 2013
- Office of the Secretary of Defense, Strategist for Energy and Environment, 2009 to 2011
- Military Legislative Assistant to Representative John Kline (MN-2), 2008
- Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar, Deputy Counsel and Environmental Counsel, 2005 to 2007
- Deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II as an individual augment, 2005 to 2006
- Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, 2000 to 2004
- United States Marine Corps, Infantry Officer, 1994 to 1997
Practice Areas:
- General Practice
- Patents & Trademark
- Military Law
Education
- Southern Illinois University School of Law, Carbondale, Illinois
- Juris Doctor - 2000
- Honors: Dean's List
- Honors: Jessup International Law moot court team
- Honors: Order of Barristers
- Honors: Received the Welch Excellence in Labor Law Award
- Honors: Law Review
- The Judge Advocate General's School U.S. Army, Charlottesville, Virginia
- LL.M., Master of Laws - 2005
- Major: Military Law with specialty in Criminal Law
- United States Naval Academy
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering - 1993
Bar Admissions
- Supreme Court of the United States of America, 2005
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 2001
- Illinois, 2000
Honors
- Republican Nominee for Illinois Attorney General, 2014
- Lt. Col, USMC (retired)
Published Works
- “Talk the Talk; Now Walk the Walk: Giving an Absolute Privilege to Communications Between a Victim and Victim-Advocate in the Military,” in the Military Law Review, 185 Mil. L. Rev. 149 (2005)