News September 30th 2014

Leadership from the bench

Leadership from the bench

September 30th, 2014

Editor’s note: At a recent judge advocate retirement, the Chief Judge of the Department of the Navy, Capt. Chris Reismeier, gave a keynote address.  The following is an adaptation of that speech, which gives a JAG Corps perspective of leadership from the bench.

I’ve maintained for years that we tend to focus on leadership as a trait.  We even have a block on our fitness reports that evaluates us on …