Charles William Gittins
[ ] (born October 26, 1956) is an American lawyer, who has worked for a number of noteworthy
defendant
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courts martial
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Gittins attended the
United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy (US Naval Academy, USNA, or Navy) is a federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It was established on 10 October 1845 during the tenure of George Bancroft as Secretary of the Navy. The Naval Academy ...
, graduating in 1979. He then joined the
Marine Corps where he served as a Radar Intercept Officer.
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Gittins graduated first in his class from ]The Catholic University of America
The Catholic University of America (CUA) is a private university, private Catholic church, Roman Catholic research university in Washington, D.C. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution ...
's Columbus School of Law in 1987 and was in the Judge Advocate Corps for six years, before entering civilian life.[
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The first civilian firm Gittins worked for was Williams & Connolly
Williams & Connolly LLP is an American law firm based in Washington, D.C. The firm was founded by trial lawyer Edward Bennett Williams in collaboration with Paul Connolly, a former student of his. Williams left the partnership of D.C. firm Hog ...
.[ While there he defended Robert E. Stumpf, Commander of the Blue Angels, and one of the principals in the ]Tailhook scandal
The Tailhook scandal was a military scandal in which United States Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aviation officers were alleged to have sexually assaulted up to 83 women and seven men, or otherwise engaged in "improper and indecent" conduct at t ...
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He spent three and a half years there before founding his own firm.[
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References
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Living people
United States Marine Corps officers
1956 births
Columbus School of Law alumni