Richard O'Meara

degree from the Fordham University School of Law in 1975[2] before joining the Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army.

For two decades, while serving in the U.S. Army Reserve, he acted as senior partner in the litigation firm, O'Meara & Hight.

He holds a Research Fellowship at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, United States Naval Academy and continues to serve as Adjunct Faculty with the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies where he has taught rule of law, governance, and peacekeeping subjects in such diverse locations as El Salvador, Peru, Cambodia, Rwanda, Philippines, Chad, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ukraine, Moldova, and Iraq.

He is a qualified Emergency Medical Technician and served at the World Trade Center Site in the months after 9/11.

Maritime Piracy in the 21st Century: A Short Course for U.S. Policy Makers (Winter 2007, Journal of Global Change and Governance) On September 7, 2004 O'Meara and seven other retired officers wrote an open letter to President Bush expressing their concern over the number of allegations of abuse of prisoners in U.S. military custody.