§ 19-7-106 — Office of state judge advocate

Wyoming § 19-7-106

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 19: Defense Forces and Affairs
• Ch. 7: ADMINISTRATION
• Art. 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS

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(a) The adjutant general shall appoint a state judge
advocate for the military department. The state judge advocate
shall be an active member of the air or army national guard and
shall serve as the legal counsel for the department. The state
judge advocate may appoint such staff judge advocate officers as
may be required and authorized by regulation.
(b) The state judge advocate shall be a member in good
standing in the Wyoming state bar. All other staff judge
advocate officers shall be members in good standing in a state
bar. Each staff judge advocate officer shall be qualified as a
judge advocate pursuant to the regulations of the staff judge
advocate officer's respective United States army or air force
component.
(c) The state judge advocate and staff judge advocate
officers who have been admitted to the Wyoming state bar and are
in good standing with the bar may be appointed by the Wyoming
attorney general as special assistant attorneys general for the
purpose of representing the Wyoming military department before
the courts of the state and nation. Appointment shall not
constitute a conflict of interest in the officer’s nonmilitary
practice of law as to any litigation in which another agency of
the state is a party in interest. Judge advocate officers
appointed special assistant attorneys general shall also be
authorized to bring and prosecute, in the name of the state,
criminal complaints against members of the Wyoming national
guard relating to violations of the State Code of Military
Justice, in any of the courts of this state.