Jim was born in Los Angeles, California on September
15, 1943. He received his
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 from the University of Notre Dame and
his Juris Doctorate
in 1968 from Chicago-Ken College of Law. He served in the
Judge Advocate General's
Corps, United States Army from 1969 until 1983. He was admitted before the United States
Court
of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, the United States Court of Military Appeals and the United
States District Court for the
Western District of Louisiana.
He has been recognized as an "Advocate" before the Association of
Tial Lawyers of
America and is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the Lafayette Parish
Bar
Association. He is an associate member of the Lafayette Board of Realtors and the
Acadiana Mortgage
Bankers Association.
Jim served as National President of Vietnam Veterans of America
from 1991 to 1997.
He was the National Vice President and Co-General Counsel of the Vietnam Veterans
of
America from 1989-1991. He also served as Louisiana State President of WA from 1988
- 1989,
the State Judge Advocate and attorney for the American Legion, Department of
Louisiana
from 1986 to 1990, Chairman of the Lafayette Committee for Services to the
Elderly
and Chronically Disadvantaged of the Mayor's Task Force for Human Services from
1986 and 1987 for the Sertoma
Club, Vice President of the Lafayette Sertoma Club and
Vice President of the Southwest Louisiana Notre Dame
Club.
While serving as National President of the Vietnam
Veterans of America he was
selected to participate in a Presidential fact finding
mission to Vietnam to access the
progress of Vietnam's cooperation in resolving the POW/MIA issue. As
a result, he began
the highly successful Veteran's initiative, an exchange of information between
American
and Vietnamese Veterans concerning the losses by both sides during the Vietnam War.
This program
was credited as being the most important program developed by a veterans
organization to help provide
answers as to what happened to American Servicemen who
were unaccounted for after the war.
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