Chris has spent most of his adult life in the military and has served multiple assignments throughout the world.  Chris served in Baghdad, Iraq in 2006-2007 with the U.S. Army as a legal assistance officer, operational law officer advising commanders on a wide range of military operations, and as a federal military magistrate reviewing search warrants and presiding over preliminary hearings on military criminal cases.  He served his second deployment in 2010, this time as a Civil Affairs Officer in Djibouti, Africa.  In Africa, Chris was the executive officer for a civil affairs company and the civil military liaison to the U.S. Embassy for Djibouti. 

As the liaison, he was responsible for briefing the U.S. Ambassador on civil military operations in the area.   He also served in numerous assignments throughout the United States, including as the Chief of Operational Law for the 1st Cavalry Division, Special Victims’ Counsel at Fort Leavenworth, and as a Fiscal and Administrative Law attorney at First Army Headquarters in Rock Island, Illinois.

Chris currently serves as an Army Reservist and is the Staff Judge Advocate for the 412th Theater Engineer Command in Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Chris has been advising Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines for more than 16 years on issues that affect servicemembers and their families.  He is licensed in multiple states and jurisdictions.  Chris enjoys working out, reading Army history, volunteering, and cheering on his childhood home team the Kansas City Chiefs.