Kyndra Rotunda - Career

Career

From 2000 through 2003, Rotunda served on active duty as an officer in the US Army JAG Corps and then served in the Individual Ready Reserve until 2008. She held the rank of Major in the Army. She is notable for her military service related to Guantanamo Bay, first as a Legal Advisor to the Guantanamo Detention Camp Commander, later as a legal advisor to the Department of Defense Criminal Investigation Task Force, then as a Prosecutor for the Guantanamo Military Commissions. In 2008, she published a book about her experience, titled Honor Bound: Inside the Guantanamo Trials. Rotunda is also the author of a Law School Textbook entitled Military & Veterans Law, published by Thomson West Publishing, 2011.

From 2003 to 2005, Rotunda was the Wyoming State Planning Coordinator and served as a legal and policy advisor to then-Governor, and headed up the Governor's policy team. Dave Freudenthal.

In 2006, she became a law professor at the George Mason University School of Law, where she was the Director of a pro bono law clinic for military personnel and veterans.

In 2008, Rotunda and her husband Ronald Rotunda joined a list of former faculty of George Mason University who took positions at the Chapman University School of Law. She developed and heads the Chapman pro bono law clinic for military personnel and veterans. In 2009 was named as a Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she assisted in starting, a similar clinic, which she now teaches.

Professor Rotunda has written and spoken as an advocate for military troops. Her op-eds have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, The New York Sun, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Times, The Orange County Register, and others. She has appeared on national and international television news programs including Al Jazeera, Hannity's America, and The Brit Hume Report. Rotunda's television interview on Dialogue with Doti and Dodge was awarded a Bronze Telly Award in 2009.

In September, 2008, Professor Rotunda testified before Congress about restoring the rule of law in Guantanamo Bay and various legal issues impacting the troops.