Jack Nevin
Jack Nevin | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | lawyer, judge, professor |
Jack Nevin is a lawyer, retired Washington superior court judge in Pierce County, Washington, and a visiting professor at Seattle University's School of Law.[1] He was formerly a military lawyer. He is currently a brigadier general in the United States Army Reserves. He is the chief judge of the United States Army Court of Criminal Appeals.
Education
[edit]| Bachelor | Washington State University | |
| MBA | Gonzaga University | |
| J.D. | Gonzaga University | |
| 1996 | Air War College | |
| 1998 | Army War College |
Military career
[edit]Nevin has been in the US military for over thirty years.[1]
Legal career
[edit]Nevin helped newly formed countries set out their own rules for their judiciaries.[1] In January 2012, Nevin was an observer at the military commissions at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp[2]
In 2003, Nevin was chosen by the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association to be Washington State's Judge of the Year.[3] He retired from the Washington Superior Court on December 21, 2020.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Jack Nevin: Adjunct Professor". Seattle University School of Law. Archived from the original on 2012-08-09. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ Adam Ashton (2012-02-04). "Pierce County judge Nevin gets close look at Guantanamo's inner workings". The News Tribune. Archived from the original on 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
Pierce County District Court Judge Jack Nevin worked in military courts all over the world during his 33-year career as an Army Reserve attorney and judge. None was quite like the court he visited last month as an independent observer at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- ^ "Judge of the Year teaches teens, lawyers, foreign officials". Washington Courts. 2003-04-29. Archived from the original on 2003-06-11. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
Nevin traveled to El Salvador in 2002 to help establish a victim-witness assistance program, and was chosen by the United Nations in 2001 to serve on a detention review commission in Kosovo, where he also helped draft guidelines for the country's first bar exam in 10 years. In 1999 and 2000, as an adjunct faculty member of the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies, Nevin traveled to Malawi in south central Africa to teach government officials about law and human rights, with an emphasis on women's rights.
- ^ "Retirement of Judge Jack Nevin". Pierce County, Washington. December 29, 2020. Archived from the original on March 3, 2021.