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GORDON O. TANNER
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Gordon O. Tanner, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Air Force, located in the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. He provides oversight, guidance, and direction regarding legal advice on matters arising within the Department of the Air Force.
Prior to his selection for this position, Mr. Tanner served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Reserve Affairs), Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for coordinating, planning and establishing policy for the Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve and Civil Air Patrol. He also served as the Department of Defense Executive Agent for the National Science Foundation Antarctica Program/Operation Deep Freeze.
Mr. Tanner came to this position after three years as Deputy General Counsel (Environment & Installations), Office of the Air Force General Counsel, Washington, D.C. where he was responsible for providing legal advice to the Secretary of the Air Force, assistant secretaries, General Counsel, and the Air Staff on a variety of environmental, real estate, and installation management matters, including environmental cleanup and compliance, leasing and other real property transfers, and privatization and base-realignment-and-closure issues. He had formerly served as Chief Legal Counsel at the SAF/GCN office in San Antonio, Texas, where he led the team of lawyers that developed, negotiated and closed the complex real estate transactions associated with the Air Force military family housing privatization initiative.
In his prior private practice, Mr. Tanner was a Senior Partner in the Financial Institutions and Real Estate Group of a large multistate firm that practiced in almost all fields of law, with clients located in Europe, Asia, Canada and all 50 states. He represented clients in a broad range of industries including banks and financial institutions, real estate joint ventures and development firms, as well as emerging high-technology firms.
Mr. Tanner retired as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps Reserves. His Reserve assignments included service in the Office of the Air Force General Counsel; as the Senior Reserve Individual Mobilization Augmentee to the Staff Judge Advocate, Fourteenth Air Force, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., (Air Force Space Command); and as the Senior Individual Mobilization Augmentee and Instructor at The Judge Advocate General School Maxwell AFB, Ala.
EDUCATION
1970 Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, University of Alabama
1972 Juris Doctor degree, Vanderbilt University School of Law
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
1. 1973 - 1977, captain, Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps (active duty), Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla.
2. 1977 - 1988, Partner, McDermott, Slepian Windom & Reed law firm, Mobile, Ala.
3. 1988 - 1997, Senior Partner, Sirote & Permutt law firm, Mobile, Ala.
4. 1979 - 2002, colonel, Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps (Reserve)
5. 2000 - 2008, Associate General Counsel, Office of the Air Force General Counsel, San Antonio, Texas
6. 2008 - 2011, Deputy General Counsel, Environment and Installations, Office of the Air Force General Counsel, Washington, D.C.
7. 2011 - 2012, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Reserve Affairs), the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
8. 2012- present, Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Air Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
MAJOR AWARDS AND HONORS
Legion of Merit
Meritorious Civilian Service Award
Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf clusters
Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster
Air Force Special Service Award
Reserve Educator of the Year Award, The Air Force Judge Advocate General School, Air University
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
U.S. Supreme Court Bar
District of Columbia Bar
Tennessee State Bar
Alabama State Bar
U.S. Tax Court
U.S. Court of Military Appeals
U.S. Court of Appeals (5th Circuit)
U.S. Court of Appeals (11th Circuit)
Reserve Officer Association
(Current as of February 2012)
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