Judge Advocate General

Judge Advocate General may refer to:

  • Judge Advocate General's Corps, a military branch of service concerned with military law
  • The office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the Australian Defence Force (ADF); created by the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982 (DFDA)
  • Judge Advocate General (Canada)
  • Defence Judge Advocate Corps (Denmark)
  • Judge Advocate General (India)
  • Military Advocate General (Israel)
  • Judge Advocate General Branch (Pakistan)
  • Judge Advocate General (Sri Lanka)
  • Judge Advocate General (United Kingdom)
  • Judge Advocate General's Corps (United States) which is the judicial arm of any of the United States armed forces:
    • Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army
    • Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy
      • U.S. Marine Corps Judge Advocate Division
    • Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Air Force
    • U.S. Coast Guard Legal Division

Judge Advocate General's Corps may also be:

  • JAG (TV series), a U.S.-produced television show based on the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps.
  • Starfleet Judge Advocate General, an agency in the fictional Star Trek universe

Famous quotes containing the words judge, advocate and/or general:

    “We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

    “I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it.”
    —Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)

    “We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write, on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)