Naval Law

Captain Brent Filbert, JAGC, USNR (Ret.) is currently the Director of Military Law at the Veteran Advocacy Project (VAP). During his thirty-year career as a Navy judge advocate, he served as defense counsel for many important cases. He is an undergraduate alumnus of University of Missouri (with honors) and received his JD (with distinction) at University of Missouri, Kansas City. Captain Filbert is also a distinguished graduate of the Naval War College – College of Naval Command and Staff and has an LLM in Trial Advocacy from Temple University School of Law. Brigadier General John Baker, USMC (Ret.) is currently the Federal Public Defender for the Western District of North Carolina. During his thirty two-year career with the Marines, he served in a variety of leadership and litigation positions and participated in several hundred criminal trials, including capital and non-capital murder. Before becoming an attorney, he was a supply and logistics officer and a company commander. Brigadier General Baker is a graduate of Union College and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He also earned an MBA from Averett University and an LLM from The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School. Colonel Mark Jamison, USMC (Ret.) is currently Deputy Director, Office of Military Justice, U.S. Coast Guard. During his thirty-year career he served in a variety of positions to include as Appellate Judge on the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals and Director of the Department of the Navy’s Appellate Government Division, responsible for the prosecution of military criminal justice appeals within the Department of the Navy. Colonel Jamison is a graduate of the University of Nebraska – College of Law. He also earned a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the Army War College and an LLM from the Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School.