Rear Adm Melissa Bert
Rear Adm. Melissa Bert has actually been spent as court supporter basic and also primary advice of the UNITED STATECoast Guard She is the solution’s initial female to hold that workplace.
Bert was most just recently the supervisor of Governmental and also Public Affairs for the Coast Guard, where she was in charge of exterior involvement with Congress, the media and also various other inter-governmental entities.
As court supporter basic and also primary advice, Bert will certainly lead a team of attorneys that are accountable for the shipment of all lawful solutions on behalf of the Coast Guard’s objectives, its devices and also its individuals.
Bert is the Coast Guard’s 20th primary advice and also 7th uniformed court supporter general. She signs up with various other trailblazing ladies in the Coast Guard’s lawful area such asCapt Eleanor Creed L’Ecuyer and alsoCapt Etha B. Fox of the Coast Guard Reserve, both of whom signed up with the Coast Guard in 1944.
Bert has actually functioned as the Coast Guard’s Seventh District principal of personnel and also as principal of the Maritime and also International Law Office, sustaining UNITED STATE involvement with the International Maritime Organization and also offering lawful guidance on a range of plans, consisting of the Law of the Sea, medicine and also migrant interdiction, homeland protection, Arctic plan and also environmental management. She likewise functioned as leader of Coast Guard Sector Juneau and also captain of the port for southeastern Alaska.
She is a grad of the Coast Guard Academy and also the George Washington University Law School and also was a nationwide protection other at the Harvard Kennedy School and also an armed forces other with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Bert has actually shown as a complement teacher at George Washington University and also the University ofMiami Law School Her honors consist of the United Way American Values Award, the Joint Superior Service medal, 2 Legions of Merit and also 3Meritorious Service Medals She was granted the Young Military Lawyer of the Year for the Coast Guard by the American Bar Association in 1997 and also the Judge Advocates Association Outstanding Career Armed Services Attorney Award in 2006. Bert is a life participant of the Council on Foreign Relations and also a Proctor in Admiralty in the United States Maritime Law Association.
