Gregory Baldwin Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Gregory T. Baldwin is the Chief Counsel, Secretary of the Air Force Office of the General Counsel, Installations, Energy & Environment Division, San Antonio, Texas. Serves as Chief Counsel of SAF/GCN-SA, responsible for providing installations, energy, and environmental legal services in support of Air Force and Space Force missions worldwide; assists the GCN Division Chief and has broad authority in supervising an office composed of twenty-one (21) staff attorneys and four (4) paralegals engaged in the provision of legal and policy advice to DAF leaders and staff and the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) concerning laws, regulations, authorities and policies including, but not limited to, real property acquisition, management and disposal; enhanced use and energy leasing; housing, lodging, and utility privatization; Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC); transaction financing; energy projects; and legislative proposals; primary supervisor of four (4) senior supervisory attorneys.

Joint Base San Antonio Lackland Air Force Base

Fort Knox, Kentucky

o Supervise four senior civilian attorneys practicing Federal Employment Law, Contract and Fiscal Law, Administrative and Civil Law and Ethics in a command composed predominately of Federal civilian employees.o Expert in Labor and Employment Law, Administrative and Civil Law, Contract and Fiscal Law, Government Information Management, and Command Ethics Program Management; o Expert in legal advice regarding the command’s Collective Bargaining Agreement with the American Federation of Government Employees Local 2302 union;o Extensive legal practice in labor arbitrations and grievances, MSPB and EEOC litigation and Inspector General, Office of Special Counsel and Command administrative investigations.

Fort Sam Houston, Texas

o Established a Consolidated Legal Office with 18 attorneys, which provides legal advice to an organization with over 70,000 employees located at 75 Army installations on three continents with an annual budget of over $9B dollars.o Expert in Labor and Employment Law, Administrative and Civil Law, Contract and Fiscal Law, Government Information Management, and Ethics;o Served as MDEP manager for over 500 civilian legal positions at the HQ, Region and Garrison levels within IMCOM (most Garrison legal office civilian positions within IMCOM CONUS installations reside on IMCOM TDAs);o Managed a budget in excess of $45M, which funded operations at 75 Garrison Consolidated Legal Offices across the IMCOM Enterprise;o Detailed experience in a wide range of personnel management actions, management-employee relations and Labor-Employment Law litigation;o Extensive experience in labor and employment law settlement agreements, litigation, briefing senior officials and obtaining approval to negotiate/mediate resolution of Equal Employment Opportunity cases. This experience includes five years of supervising a legal practice before the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; o Detailed experience in Command Investigations, Adverse Personnel Actions and negotiation/mediation of cases with senior agency officials; o Prepared several hundred documents for signature and/or action by the Commanding General, IMCOM, the command group and the HQ senior staff and Region Directors and their leaderships teams; Met with Commanding General and command group senior leaders daily from 2009-2014 in order to provide briefings and advice on a wide range of IMCOM Enterprise issues – routinely coordinated these issues at the direction of the Commanding General with senior leaders at HQDA and the ACOMs/ASCCs;o Supervised an office of 20 personnel (attorneys & support personnel) located at IMCOM HQ and at the IMCOM Pacific and Europe Regions.

Charlottesville, Virginia

o Established from idea to operation the JAG University Online (JAGU), the online education and training university for an organization composed of over 5,000 military and civilian attorneys and over 4,800 military and civilian paralegals (average daily JAGU student enrollment of 16,500).o Expert in TRADOC training and education policies and procedures;o Detailed experience in the development of training and education programs of instruction (POI curriculum), Managed establishment of an online university (JAGU) and the Army Paralegal Degree Program for the Judge Advocate General’s Corps;o Supervised the revision of the JAG Corps Distributed Learning Program for legal personnel at all echelons from OTJAG (Pentagon) to the 75 Garrison Consolidated Legal Offices;o Received the 2008 Distributed Learning Annual Award from the Army Training Support Center (ATSC);o Supervised an office of 8 personnel at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School.

National Training Center And Fort Irwin, California

o Managed a law office composed of 14 attorneys, 22 paralegals and civilian personnel located at the US Army’s premier digital brigade training area within an installation encompassing over 1000 square miles in the Mojave Desert; Completely revised legal service and support for all Garrison Programs and coordinating relationship with Installation Management Agency and the subordinate Region. o Primary Manager with the Garrison Commander and the Director of Public Works regarding the establishment of the Residential Communities Initiative (RCI); Served as the Army lead negotiator with Clark-Pinnacle in the preparation of all governing documentation to establish the RCI partnership.o Served as the primary advisor to the Senior Commander and Garrison Commander concerning management of the Desert Tortoise within the NTC training area; Served as the lead Army negotiator with the Department of the Interior/Bureau of Land Management (DOI/BLM) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning training execution and Desert Tortoise endangered species management.o Extensive practice in administrative and civil law, labor and employment law, contract and fiscal law and ethics in support of the Senior and Garrison Commanders.o Supervised an office of 36 military and civilian personnel.

Master'S In Miliary Law (Aba Accredited Llm)

Juris Doctor, Law

Master'S Degree, Public Administration

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government