Mon, Nov 11, 2024

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM EST (GMT-5)

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4373 Mason Pond Dr , Fairfax 22030, United States

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George Mason University celebrates and honors Veterans Day which is nationally recognized on November 11. This is a day that commemorates veterans of all wars and those who have proudly served and made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of America and its values.
Mason's Reserve Officers' Training Corps program and the Office of the President will honor veterans with a luncheon on Friday, November 10th at 11:45. Mason Community members who have proudly served the country are invited and encouraged to attend the luncheon.
At Mason, we aspire to serve our veterans with as much dedication and devotion as they have provided to our country. We hope all veterans have a memorable Veterans Day and know that Mason celebrates you.
Veterans, George Mason University salutes you!
Registration is Required. Space is limited - so RSVP early!
Dress Casual (jeans ok)
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Center for the Arts Lobby

4373 Mason Pond Dr , Fairfax 22030, United States

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Charles Stimson

Rector

George Mason University Board of Visitors


Charles “Cully” Stimson is an accomplished businessman and attorney.  Stimson is the Deputy Director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, Senior Legal Fellow, Manager of the National Security Law Program, and Senior Advisor to the President at The Heritage Foundation.  Stimson is a widely recognized policy expert in crime control, national security, immigration, homeland security, and drug policy at the Washington D.C. based think tank.  He has served as the Chief of Staff at Heritage three times and ran the transition for three Heritage presidential changes of command.

Before joining the think tank in 2007, Stimson served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs. He advised then-Secretaries of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates and coordinated the Pentagon’s global detention policy and operations, including at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq and Afghanistan.

An accomplished trial lawyer, Stimson worked as a prosecutor in San Diego, Maryland, and as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

A third-generation naval officer, Cully served in the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) for 30 years, including three tours on active duty. During his active duty and reserve career, he served as a military defense counsel, prosecutor, as Deputy Chief Judge of the Navy-Marine Corps Trial Judiciary, and the Commanding Officer of the Preliminary Hearing Unit among other assignments. He retired from the Navy JAG Corps as a Captain on February 1, 2022, after 30 years of service.

Stimson’s thousands of media interviews and appearances include Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CNN, BBC, NPR and C-SPAN. He has been quoted by most major newspapers, including The Washington PostWall Street Journal, New York TimesLos Angeles Times, and London Times.

A businessman and educator by training, Stimson is Chairman of the Board of his family’s commercial real estate company in Seattle. Before 9/11, he was a Vice President at a New York-based global financial services and insurance brokerage firm where he ran the private equity mergers and acquisitions D.C. operation.

Stimson holds a law degree from the George Mason University School of Law, where he later taught as an Adjunct Professor of Law. He is a graduate of Kenyon College, where he was Captain of the men’s varsity soccer team and an All-Conference player. He also studied at Harvard and Exeter universities. An avid soccer player, he served three terms as Chairman of the Board of the United States Soccer Foundation, the charitable giving arm of U.S. Soccer, and is currently the Chairman Emeritus.


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