Peggy McGee
After a 3-1/2-month break from sponsoring luncheons and dinners, the Green Valley Chapter, Military Officers Association (MOAA), will kick off its program season on Sept. 18 with a dinner at American Legion Post 66, 1560 W. Duval Mine Road in Green Valley. Menu options include a choice of chicken or beef. The cost for the dinner will be $25.
Speakers at the dinner include Kristine A. Huskey and Lori Pierce Lewis. Kristine is a Clinical Professor of Law and the director of the Veterans Advocacy Law Clinic at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law where she also teaches constitutional law, international human rights law, and the law of armed conflict. Huskey is also the director of the College of Law’s Clinical Program, which is home to 17 legal clinics.
Lewis works as the assistant director of the Veterans Advocacy Law Clinic in the same office. She supervises second and third-year law students in the Regional Municipalities Veterans Treatment Court in Tucson City Court. She also supervises students at pop-up legal clinics at the Tucson VA and StandDowns in Holbrook, Page, and other areas.
The Veterans Clinic provides pro bono legal assistance to veterans in Veterans Treatment Courts and on disability benefits and discharge upgrade/correction of military records cases. The clinic recently initiated the Rural and Tribal Veterans Outreach Project with the goal of increasing access to justice for rural and Tribal Veterans in Arizona. Law students and lawyers work as free defense counsel to help veterans and active-duty military members successfully complete a treatment program on their misdemeanor charges. This effort often results in dismissal of the charges.
Both Huskey and Lewis are well acquainted with the military. Huskey’s father is a Vietnam veteran, her mother served in the Army Nurse Corps, and both of her grandfathers served during World War II. In 2020 Huskey received the Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame’s Copper Sword Award, which is the highest honor given to a civilian for their efforts to support veterans. Lewis’ father was a Korean War veteran in the Army, her aunts were World War II veterans, her grandfather was a World War I veteran, and her husband is an Army veteran who served in Korea.
Because the topic can apply to veterans of all ranks, this event is open to all who served in the military at any time.
To reserve a spot at the dinner, please contact Quail Creek resident Peggy McGee at Peggy@GreenvalleyMOAA.org or 520-207-6188. The deadline to sign up is Sept. 15.