as DeRenzi with essential experience at sea had greater opportunity to rise through the ranks. Although DeRenzi was commissioned through the JAG
T ere were also 57 Hispanics (3 percent), and 85 Asians
and Native Americans (4.6 percent) in the corps in 2010. In 2009, minorities other than African Americans comprised 4.6 percent of the Army. Twenty-four percent of lawyers in that JAG Corps are women, which far surpasses the female percentage in the Army as a whole, which was 13.2 percent in 2009. Women make up a high percentage of the 857 attorneys
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in the Navy 31.5 percent for a Navy that is 17 percent female. T e second-highest Navy military attorney, Rear Adm. Nanette M. DeRenzi, is a woman. T e advancement of women in the Navy JAG Corps had been hampered by laws that until 1994 prohibited women from serving on U.S. Navy combatant ships and with any unit that might be exposed to direct combat. After these barriers were lifted in the Clinton era, women such
Corps Student Program as a Temple University law student in the 1980s and has spent her entire legal career in the JAG Corps, she says she didn’t feel her career would be complete unless she had a chance to go to sea, to “do what the Navy does.” DeRenzi served for two years on the aircraft carrier John
C. Stennis as part of a career path that led her to become the Navy’s Deputy Judge Advocate General and the highest- ranking woman in the history of all the service JAG Corps. Gunn, the VA counsel, notes that it can be more diffi cult
to increase the number of African Americans or women in the JAG Corps than in a civilian law fi rm, since there’s no such thing as a mid-level lateral hire in the military.
WITHOUT DIVERSITY, WE WERE EXPERIENCING RACIAL UNREST AND RIOTS, AND WE COULD NOT HAVE GOOD ORDER AND DISCIPLINE, AND WITHOUT GOOD ORDER AND DISCIPLINE, YOU CAN’T HAVE A MILITARY. – COL. WILLIAM GUNN
COL. LINDA STRITE MURNANE
Col. Linda Strite Murnane (U.S. Air Force, Retired) currently serves as the Chief, Court Management and Support Services, Interna- tional Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands. In her present position, she leads teams involved in the daily operation of the court- rooms in which the trials of alleged war criminals are being tried under the mandate of the United Nations Security Council. She is also responsible for implementing com- ponents of the European Union-funded War Crimes Justice Project, providing training to court professionals and others in the Balkans, transcribing verbatim local language tran- scripts and providing translation of the ICTY’s Appeals Chamber Case Law Research Tool in Balkan languages. She served as the Executive Director for the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights
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in the United States, a gubernatorial executive cabinet commission, from February 2005 until July 2007. Prior to that, she served for nearly 30 years on active duty with the United States Air Force. In her Air Force career, Col. Murnane served in a variety of positions, including 10 years as a chief circuit military judge, or military judge. She was the Chief Circuit Judge for Europe and the Eastern Judicial Circuit, Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C. She presided at the fi rst criminal trials for the U.S. Air Force during Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom in the war zone, deploying fi ve times in support of those operations between 2001 and 2003. Col. Murnane began her career as an Airman
Basic, the lowest enlisted grade in the U.S. Air Force, and retired as a colonel in 2004. Her mili- tary decorations include the Legion of Merit, and the Meritorious Service Medal with bronze and silver oak leaf cluster.
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