KYNDRA ROTUNDA is the former Director of the Clinic for Legal Assistance to Servicemembers at George Mason Law School, where she devised and taught a military curriculum to second and third year law students, and directly supervised students representing military families in various civil legal disputes.  Rotunda, and her students, recovered tens of thousands of dollars for combat wounded troops.

Rotunda began her legal career as an officer in the U.S. Army JAG Corps where she served in many capacities, including civil litigation and representing soldiers before disability boards at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She remains in the U.S. Army Reserves, and was recently selected for promotion to Major.
 

While on active duty, Rotunda served in several missions related to the Global War on Terror. She was the deputy of a family assistance clinic at Walter Reed, where she assisted war casualties and their families; deployed to Guantanamo Bay, where she advised the detention camp commander and worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross; served a tour with an elite investigatory team that pursues international investigatory leads related to terrorism; and was a prosecutor with the Military Commissions Prosecution Team, where she prepared cases for trial before the first military commissions since World War II.

Rotunda is also a former senior advisor to Wyoming Governor Freudenthal, where she provided legal and policy advice to the governor and supervised a staff of policy analysts. She also has worked in private practice, including a law firm in Washington, D.C.

Rotunda graduated from the University of Wyoming College of Arts & Sciences, where she was the Honor Graduate of the Political Science Department and nominated to Phi Beta Kappa. A Wyoming native, she earned her law degree at the University of Wyoming College of Law, where she was comments editor of the Land and Water Law Review, and was named the Outstanding Graduate of her law school class. She is a member of the Virginia, Wyoming and District of Columbia bars.

She has published several op-eds on military issues.  See:

Denying Self-Defense to GIs in Iraq (March 2, 2007) The Christian Science Monitor, 

Wall Street Journal  Hollywood Interrogates Al Qaeda (April 18, 2007). 

Chicago Tribune, Supreme Court Ruling Puts Soldiers at Risk (June 2008)

Washington Times, Don't Close Gitmo (June 2008)

Rotunda authors a military law column for Marineparents.com.

She is author of Honor Bound:  Inside the Guantanamo Trials (Carolina Academic Press, Spring 2008).