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Gregory E. Maggs
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Rank US-O6 insignia Colonel
Education Harvard University (AB, JD)
United States Army War College (MSS)

Gregory Eaton Maggs is the Arthur Selwyn Miller Research Professor of Law and Co-Director of the National Security & U.S. Foreign Relations Law Program at the George Washington University Law School and is a nominee to be a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.

Biography[]

Maggs earned his Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Harvard College, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and was designated a John Harvard Scholar. He then graduated with a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, where he served as articles co-chair of the Harvard Law Review.[1] He also earned a Master of Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College.

Upon graduation from law school, he served as a law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy, and to Judge Joseph T. Sneed of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Maggs currently serves as a Colonel in the United States Army Reserve, Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He received his commission in 1990 and was mobilized from 2007 to 2008. From 2007 to 2017, he served as a reserve trial and appellate military judge.

He is the co-author of a leading military law casebook, Modern Military Justice: Cases and Materials, and has published two related books, along with dozens of articles in the fields of constitutional law and national security.

Since 1993, he has served as the Arthur Selwyn Miller Research Professor of Law and Co-Director of the National Security & U.S. Foreign Relations Law Program at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.. There, he teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, counterterrorism, military justice, and national security law.[2] In 2014, he served as the school's interim dean.[3]

Maggs is a member of the American Law Institute.[4]

Nomination to Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces[]

On September 28, 2017, President Trump nominated Maggs to serve as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, to the seat vacated by Judge Charles E. Erdmann, when his term expired on July 31, 2017.[5] Maggs' nomination is currently pending before the Senate Armed Services Committee.[6]

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