Charlotte Wise (lawyer)
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 Charlotte Wise is an United States of America|American]] professor, lawyer, and former officer in the United States Navy]].[1] Wise was born in Brooklyn]], and moved to the Jamaica, NYC|Jamaica]] neighborhood of New York City]], when she was 12 years old.[2] Wise dropped out of school when she gave birth to a child when she was still a teenager. However when she worked to gain her high school equivalency, in her 20s, her instructors encouraged her to go to college and she attended York College]], graduating in 1981. After finishing a law degree at Brooklyn Law School]] she started her career as a legal officer in the Navy - a "JAG". She earned a Masters from the Naval Justice School]] in 1985. The Queens Chronicle]] celebrated her promotion to Captain (naval)|Captain]], as an instance of a local kid who "made good".[2] They noted that she was the US Navy]]'s first African-American]] legal officer to rise to the rank of Captain. Wise played a role in discussions, in December 2002, of reports that interrogators from the Joint Task Force 160]] and Joint Task Force 170]] were using controversial interrogation techniques on the captives held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] Wise was one of Alberto Mora]]'s two military and executive assistants.[1] Mora convened the meeting when David Brant]], the Director of the Naval Criminal Intelligence Service|NCIS]], drew Mora's attention to use of the questionable interrogation techniques. Wise served 23 years in the United States Navy]], her last assignment was as the Commanding Officer of the Naval Justice School]].[3][4] In the winter of 2009, after retiring from the Navy, George Washington Law School]] at George Washington University]], appointed Wise their Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.[4] References
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