Lisa M. Schenck - Professional Experience

Professional Experience

After retiring as a Colonel with over two and a half decades of service in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, Dr. Schenck held the position of Senior Advisor to the Defense Task Force on Sexual Assault in the Military Services. During her 25+ year career as a Judge Advocate, Dr. Schenck served an Associate Appellate Judge, and later Senior Appellate Judge, on Panel 3 of the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals in Arlington, Virginia (2002–2008). From 2007 to 2008, Dr. Schenck was also an appellate judge on the United States Court of Military Commission Review. During her time on the bench, Dr. Schenck reviewed hundreds of cases for appellate error, and authored over 80 judicial opinions. Prior to her time as a sitting judge on these intermediate-level appellate courts, Dr. Schenck held numerous attorney positions.

While in the Washington, D.C., area, Dr. Schenck was an Environmental Law Attorney at the U.S. Army Legal Services Agency in Arlington, Virginia (2000–2002), and the Executive Officer at the Criminal Law (UCMJ) Division of the Office of The Judge Advocate General (OTJAG) in Rosslyn, Virginia (1999–2000). In the mid to late 1990s, while at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York, Dr. Schenck served as the Chief Administrative and Civil Law Attorney in the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate (OSJA) (1998–1999), and as an Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Military Law, and Co-Course Director for the Introduction to Legal Methods course in the Department of Law (1995–1997).

Dr. Schenck spent over 3 years in the OSJA at the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker, Alabama. There she served as the Chief of both the Claims and Legal Assistance Divisions, the Supervising Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, the Chief of the Criminal Law Division, and finally, the Deputy Staff Judge Advocate for the Aviation Center (1991–1994).

In the early 1990s, Dr. Schenck served a couple of years in the Republic of Korea (South Korea). At Camp Humphreys, she served as the Acting Command Judge Advocate, and as a Claims and Legal Assistance Attorney for the 23d Area Support Group (1991). Prior to those assignments Dr. Schenck served as Trial Counsel (prosecutor) and Infantry Brigade Legal Advisor at Camp Hovey, and as Trial Counsel and a Legal Assistance Attorney at Camp Stanley for the 2d Infantry Division (1990–1991).

While an officer in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, Dr. Schenck held the positions of Assistant Fielding Team Chief and Assistant Secretary of the General Staff for the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey (1983–1986).