{"id":533,"date":"2021-09-14T14:05:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T14:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/?p=533"},"modified":"2024-09-10T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T20:50:00","slug":"col-rose-forrest-recognized-as-a-leader-in-maryland-legal-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/col-rose-forrest-recognized-as-a-leader-in-maryland-legal-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Col. Rose Forrest Recognized as a Leader in Maryland Legal Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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As the first female staff judge advocate in the\u00a0Maryland National Guard<\/a>, Col. Rose M. Forrest, J.D. \u201906<\/b>, led legal operations for the Guard during a very challenging time: the COVID-19 pandemic. The Guard supported COVID testing and vaccination efforts across the state. She was recognized for her accomplishments when she was named the overall winner for The Daily Record\u2019s<\/i> 2021 Leadership in Law<\/a>\u00a0awards program.\u00a0<\/p>

An Iraq veteran, Forrest has been serving the Army since 1998. In January 2020, she was named the state\u2019s first female staff judge advocate, a role in which she serves as legal adviser to the National Guard\u2019s Adjutant General and manages legal programs for the office of the Staff Judge Advocate.<\/p>

In a statement released to announce her promotion, Forrest noted that she was the only female member of the JAG Corps when she joined. So when staffing the office, Forrest made a point of keeping diversity in mind \u2014 not just diversity of gender and ethnicity, but diversity of thought as well.<\/p>

\u201cI think if somebody walks in for an interview and their legal philosophy is completely different from mine, I\u2019m probably going to hire them,\u201d Forrest said. \u201cWhen somebody presents them with a problem, [they are able] to analyze the problem and look at it\u00a0from different perspectives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Earlier this year, she earned a master\u2019s degree in Military and Strategic Leadership from the U.S. Army War College. Forrest previously worked in private practice, focusing on family law, real estate law and birth advocacy. In 2020, she was named first runner-up in the 2020 Ms. Veteran America competition, a fundraiser for homeless women veterans and their children.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Col. Rose M. Forrest As the first female staff judge advocate in the\u00a0Maryland National Guard, Col. Rose M. Forrest, J.D. \u201906, led legal operations for the Guard during a very challenging time: the COVID-19 pandemic. The Guard supported COVID testing and vaccination efforts across the state. She was recognized for her accomplishments when she was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}