Reflections from Judge Scott W. Stucky

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Judge Scott W. Stucky will reflect on his distinguished career, including his service as a federal judge, chief judge, and senior judge. He will share lessons learned and other observations from some of his many cases. Steven R. Miller, Federal Career Service Division Chair, will moderate.

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The Honorable Scott W. Stucky, Senior Judge.

President George W. Bush appointed Scott W. Stucky to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on December 20, 2006.  He became Chief Judge on August 1 , 2017, and Senior Judge on August 1, 2021. 

Judge Stucky was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1948, and grew up on a family farm near Pretty Prairie, Kansas.  He graduated from Wichita State University, where he received a commission as a second lieutenant, U.S. Air Force Reserve, through ROTC. He then attended Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1973.  After his admission to the Kansas bar, Judge Stucky went on active duty as a judge advocate in the Air Force, serving in San Antonio, Texas; U-Tapao, Thailand; and Syracuse, New York. After leaving active duty, Judge Stucky practiced with a Washington, D.C., Jaw firm and then served as a branch chief with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

In  1983, Judge Stucky became a civilian legislative counsel for the Department of the Air Force.  Four years later, he became the Air Force’s principal legislative counsel, responsible  for its legislative drafting, statutory analysis, and related matters. 

He served as a member and panel chairman on the Air Force Board for Correction of Military Records .  Judge Stucky was selected to serve as an OPM LEGIS Fellow, and to attend the Federal Executive Institute, the Harvard Program for Senior Officials in National  Security, and the National  War College. 

In 1996, Judge Stucky became General Counsel of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. Jn this capacity, he was the principal legal officer for the majority side of the Committee. 

He served two chairmen , Senators Thurmond and Warner ; three staff directors; and was responsible as counsel for I 0 consecutive national defense authorization  acts 

From  1982 to 2003, Judge Stucky served in the Air Force Reserve as a judge advocate individual mobilization  augmentee (IMA). He was three times appointed  as an appellate military judge on the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, serving for a total of almost seven years on that court. From  1999 to 2001, he was the senior I MA in Washington, D.C., responsible to the Judge Advocate General for the training and readiness of some 120 Reservists .  Upon his retirement as a colonel in 2003, Judge Stucky was awarded the Legion of Merit for outstanding service. 

In addition to his undergraduate and law degrees, Judge Stucky holds master’s degrees in history from Trinity University and in international law from George Washington University. He has lectured at the JAG schools of all three services and was for I0 consecutive years a panelist at the ABA’s annual Law and National Security Conference.  He was a member of the board of directors of Omicron Delta Kappa (a college leadership society) from 2006 to 2010, and of the Executive Committee of the ABA Appellate Judges Conference from 2012 to 2016. 

Judge Stucky was married to the former Jean Seibert.  Jean Stucky, a graduate of Wellesley College and Cornell Law School, retired as Assistant General Counsel for Contractor Human Resources at the U.S. Department of Energy in 2018 and died in 2020.  The Judge has two children, Mary-Clare and Joseph. 

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