Gregory E. Maggs

Gregory E. Maggs is the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and a Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University Law School.

A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he was a member of GW’s full-time faculty from 1993 to 2018. He served as the Interim Dean twice, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, co-director of the National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations LLM program, and Arthur Selwyn Miller Research Professor of Law. By votes of graduating classes, he received the law school's Distinguished Faculty Service Award in 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015, and the Distinguished Adjunct Teaching Award in 2020 and 2025. In 2012, he was given the George Washington Award for outstanding service to the University.

Judge Maggs previously was a law clerk for Justices Clarence Thomas, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, and Judge Joseph T. Sneed. He was also an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Law, a special master for the U.S. Supreme Court, a consultant for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, and an assistant to retired Judge Robert H. Bork at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a member of the American Law Institute and a former member of the Advisory Board for the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.

Judge Maggs served in the U.S. Army Reserve, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, from 1990 to 2018, retiring in the rank of Colonel. Among other assignments, he was a military trial judge, a military appellate judge, and an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, the Joint and Combined Warfighting School, the Military Judge Course, the Command and General Staff Course, the Judge Advocate Officer Advanced and Basic Courses, the Air Assault School, and other military courses. He has received the Judge Advocates Association’s Outstanding Career Armed Services Attorney Award and the Major General William K. Suter Distinguished Judicial Service Award.

Judge Maggs has taught Constitutional Law, Contracts, Commercial Paper, Counterterrorism Law, Sales, Secured Transactions, and other subjects. He has written several books and many articles on these topics.

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