General Counsel of the Army
The General Counsel of the Army is the chief legal officer of the U.S. Department of the Army and senior legal advisor to the Secretary of the Army.
U.S. law provides that the General Counsel shall be appointed from the civilian life by the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the United States Senate, and that the Secretary of the Army prescribes the duties of the office.
The Office of the General Counsel of the Army also provides legal advice to the Under Secretary of the Army and the five Assistant Secretaries of the Army, as well as other members of the Army Secretariat. The General Counsel of the Army also plays a role in supervising the Office of the Judge Advocate General and the Office of the Chief Counsel of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Partial list of General Counsels of the Army
| Name | Terme start | Term end | President appointed by | Secretary served under |
| Karl Bendetsen | 1949 | 1950 | Harry Truman | Gordon Gray |
| Francis Shackelford | 1950 | 1952 | Harry Truman | Frank Pace |
| Bernard A. Monaghan | 1952 | 1953 | Harry Truman | Frank Pace, Robert T. Stevens |
| John G. Adams | 1953 | 1955 | Dwight Eisenhower | Robert T. Stevens |
| Frank Millard | 1955 | 1961 | Dwight Eisenhower | Wilber M. Brucker |
| Powell Pierpoint | 1961 | 1963 | John F. Kennedy | Elvis Jacob Stahr Jr., Cyrus Vance |
| Joseph A. Califano Jr. | 1963 | 1964 | John F. Kennedy | Cyrus Vance |
| Alfred B. Fitt | 1964 | 1967 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Stephen Ailes, Stanley Rogers Resor |
| Robert E. Jordan III | 1967 | 1971 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Stanley Rogers Resor |
| Robert W. Berry | 1971 | 1974 | Richard Nixon | Robert Frederick Froehlke, Howard Callaway |
| Charles D. Ablard | 1975 | 1977 | Gerald Ford | Martin Richard Hoffmann |
| Jill Wine-Banks | 1977 | 1980 | Jimmy Carter | Clifford Alexander, Jr. |
| Sara E. Lister | 1980 | 1980 | Jimmy Carter | Clifford Alexander Jr. |
| Delbert Spurlock | 1980 | 1983 | Jimmy Carter | John Otho Marsh Jr. |
| Susan J. Crawford | 1983 | 1989 | Ronald Reagan | John Otho Marsh Jr. |
| William J. Haynes II | 1990 | 1993 | George H. W. Bush | Michael P. W. Stone |
| William Thaddeus Coleman III | 1994 | 1999 | Bill Clinton | Togo D. West Jr. |
| Charles A. Blanchard | 1999 | 2001 | Bill Clinton | Louis Caldera |
| Steven J. Morello | 2001 | 2004 | George W. Bush | Thomas E. White, Francis J. Harvey |
| Brad Carson | 2012 | 2014 | Barack Obama | John M. McHugh |
| Alissa Starzak | 2015 | 2017 | Barack Obama | Eric Fanning, Patrick Murphy, Robert M. Speer |
| Earl G. Matthews, acting | 2017 | 2018 | Donald Trump | Robert M. Speer, Mark Esper |
| James E. McPherson | January 2, 2018 | Donald Trump | Mark Esper |