Wed, May 28, 2003
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has
announced the names of the individuals who will serve on a
seven-member panel to review sexual misconduct allegations at the
US Air Force Academy. Congress directed the panel on April 16, in
Public Law 108-11, Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations
Act, 2003.
Rumsfeld, in consultation with the Chairmen of the Senate and
House Armed Services Committees, named Tillie K. Fowler as panel
chair. Fowler is a law partner with Holland & Knight law firm,
a former Florida congresswoman and House Armed Services Committee
member with expertise in defense policy and military academies.
Other panel members are Josiah Bunting, superintendent of the
Virginia Military Institute; Amy McCarthy, United Airlines pilot
and Air Force Academy graduate; Laura L. Miller, social scientist
at the Rand Corp., former assistant professor of sociology at the
University of California at Los Angeles and an expert in
organizational behavior; Michael J. Nardotti, law partner, Patton,
Boggs, LLP, a retired Army major general and formerly the Judge
Advocate General of the Army; John W. Ripley, director of Marine
Corps History Center and Museum, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, and
former president of Southern Virginia College; and Sally L. Satel,
practicing psychiatrist at the Oasis Drug Treatment Center,
Washington, D.C., with expertise in addictive behavior as it
relates to sexual misconduct.
The panel will conduct a 90-day study of the policies,
management, and organizational practices and cultural elements of
the Academy that may have been conducive to alleged sexual
misconduct, including sexual assaults and rape. A report of
findings, conclusions, and recommendations will be submitted to the
Secretary of Defense and the Chairmen of the Senate and House Armed
Services Committees upon completion of the study.
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