James A. King, Jr.

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James A. King, Jr. (b. March 12, 1957, Elyria, Ohio) is the first United States Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps officer to be honored with the Air Force Reserve Citizen Airman Award from the Aerospace Education Foundation. 1. In his civilian capacity, he is an attorney for The Boeing Company's Rotorcraft Division in Ridley Township, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia. He is a Colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve Judge Advocate General's Corps assigned as the Senior Individual Mobilization Augmentee to the Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, 2. and serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for the USO of Pennsylvania & Southern New Jersey (aka Liberty USO) 3..

Jim King graduated in 1975 from Elyria High School and in 1979 from Villanova University with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree. In 1983, he graduated from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law with a Juris Doctorate degree. He worked for one year as a structural engineer for Pennsylvania Power Company in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, before starting law school. Upon graduation from Cleveland-Marshall in March of 1983, he accepted a direct commission into the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corp where he was assigned for one year as an Assistant Staff Judge Advocate at Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tullahoma, Tennessee, followed by three and one-half years at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where he served as the program counsel on the F-16 fighter aircraft program and the Maverick missile program. Since leaving active duty service in 1988, he has served in a reserve capacity at Loring Air Force Base, Maine, at the Air Force Legal Services Agency in the Pentagon, at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research at Bolling Air Force Base and in Rosslyn, Virginia, at Hanscom Air Force Base in Concord, Massachusetts, and at his current Los Angeles, California, assignment.

References: [1] http://www.afa.org/media/press/afrcaa.asp [2] [3] http://libertyuso.org/?q=node/10