Col Terrie M. Gent, USAF Ret. Oral History

title:

Col Terrie M. Gent, USAF Ret. Oral History

creator:

Gent, Terrie M. (Rhodes)

subject:

Air Force

description:

Terrie Gent (formerly Rhodes) had he first contact with the Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) while in law school at Creighton University in 1981 when a recruiter came to the school. She started volunteering there since they didn’t have a civilian internship program, and along with the legal work, she was included in the mentoring and physical fitness programs for the JAGs in the office. Her first assignment in 1984 was at Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George’s County, Maryland with Chief Legal Assistance Preventive Law. He second assignment, starting in 1986, was with the Area Defense Counsel in Washington, DC. In 1989, she was assigned to Bolling Air Force Base, still in DC, to work with headquarters claims in the Torts Division. These cases were largely individuals who claimed negligence, and often the cases were quite personal. In 1990, she was selected for the Utility Litigation Team, where she tried cases regarding public utilities. Her cases often dealt with natural gas and its deregulation, involving military consumers in New Mexico. She also became a staff judge in Operations Law at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. There, she worked with the 67th Intelligence Wing, the largest wing in the Air Force. In 1993, she was apart of a safety investigation with the 12th Air Force Chief Air Operations in Tucson, Arizona. In 1994, she went to the Dallas Air Force Base, where she was the only female instructor. There were also very few women JAG officers in general, which she credits to a lot of things, but especially legislation that prohibited women on active duty with children and prohibiting women from benefits. These rules were eventually done away with. From 2001 to 2003, she was on a colonel board, and from 2003 to 2005 she was an appellate military judge. When she left the service in 2005, she had reached the rank of colonel, and for her service she was awarded a Legion of Merit and a Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters. No transcript of this interview is currently available.

publisher:

Military Women's Memorial Foundation

contributor:

Scott, Kate M.

date:

2005-06-09

type:

Audio

format:

VHS

identifier:

336; 2005.336

source:

CLIR - Recordings at Risk

language:

English

relation:

525762

coverage:

1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 1984-2005

rights:

Unrestricted