Flora Diana Darpino (born 1961) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and military lawyer who was the 39th Judge Advocate General of the United States Army.
[1][2] Darpino graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, and received her Juris Doctor from Rutgers Law School in Camden, New Jersey, in 1986.
[4] Darpino received a direct commission into the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps in January 1987.
[3] Her first assignment was to VII Corps in Stuttgart, Germany, where she was a trial defense counsel and chief of the civil law division.
[3] She was later the training officer and assistant operations officer for the United States Army Trial Defense Service; litigation attorney, litigation division, United States Army Legal Services Agency; chief, Administrative Law, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky; assistant executive officer, Office of The Judge Advocate General; chief, Judge Advocate Recruiting Office; staff judge advocate, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Hood, Texas and Tikrit, Iraq; deputy staff judge advocate, III Corps at Fort Hood; chief, Criminal Law Division, OTJAG; staff judge advocate, V Corps, in Heidelberg, Germany; and staff judge advocate, United States Forces – Iraq, in Baghdad, Iraq.