Dr. Myron H. Nordquist is the Distinguished Fellow at the United States Naval War College. His professional career includes government service, private law practice and academia. He attended Oregon State University on an NROTC scholarship and was named its First Distinguished Alumni. He was commissioned in the United States Marine Corps and his infantry battalion made the initial landing at Chu Lai, Vietnam, in early 1965. Nordquist earned his first law degree at California Western University and he was awarded a Ford Foundation scholarship for post-graduate law studies at Cambridge University. In 1970, he accepted an attorney-advisor position in the Office of Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State. While serving at the State Department, Nordquist was named Office Director and Legislative Counsel of the NSC Interagency Task Force on the Law of the Sea on the staff of the Deputy Secretary of State. In 1978, he went into private practice in Washington, DC while engaging in adjunct law teaching at George Washington, American and the University of Virginia Law Schools. Nordquist was named Deputy General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force in 1990, where he subsequently served as Acting General Counsel prior to joining the law faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He was a tenured Professor of Law at the Academy and during the academic year 1995-96 was the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the Naval War College. In 1999, Nordquist served as General Counsel to his home state U.S. Senator Conrad Burns and began a formal affiliation with the UVA Law School, where he had earned an SJD. Over his career Nordquist authored or edited more than 70 books and published numerous articles and other scholarly works, including the often cited eight-volume Virginia Commentary on the Law of the Sea.