Charles D. Stimson

Charles “Cully” Stimson is a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He served as a local, state, federal, and military prosecutor, a defense attorney, and a military trial judge. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs in the George W. Bush administration.  After thirty years of active duty and reserve service, Stimson retired as a captain of the United States Navy JAG Corps where he was a two-time commanding officer and deputy chief judge of the Navy-Marine Corps Trial Judiciary.