Charlotte Wise (lawyer)
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 Charlotte Wise is an American professor, lawyer, and former officer in the United States Navy.[1] Wise was born in Brooklyn, and moved to the Jamaica, NYC|Jamaica neighborhood of New York City, when she was 12 years old.[2] Wise dropped out of school when she gave birth to a child when she was still a teenager. However when she worked to gain her high school equivalency, in her 20s, her instructors encouraged her to go to college and she attended York College, graduating in 1981. After finishing a law degree at Brooklyn Law School she started her career as a legal officer in the Navy - a "JAG". She earned a Masters from the Naval Justice School in 1985. The Queens Chronicle celebrated her promotion to Captain (naval)|Captain, as an instance of a local kid who "made good".[2] They noted that she was the US Navy's first African-American legal officer to rise to the rank of Captain. Wise played a role in discussions, in December 2002, of reports that interrogators from the Joint Task Force 160 and Joint Task Force 170 were using controversial interrogation techniques on the captives held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] Wise was one of Alberto Mora's two military and executive assistants.[1] Mora convened the meeting when David Brant, the Director of the Naval Criminal Intelligence Service|NCIS, drew Mora's attention to use of the questionable interrogation techniques. Wise served 23 years in the United States Navy, her last assignment was as the Commanding Officer of the Naval Justice School.[3][4] In the winter of 2009, after retiring from the Navy, George Washington Law School at George Washington University, appointed Wise their Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.[4] References
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