Richard W. Rockenbach II

Richard “Rock” Rockenbach is a trial attorney with 14 years experience as a trial attorney. As an Air Force JAG he worked at the Labor Field Support Center (LFSC) in Arlington, Virginia. At the LFSC Major Rockenbach defended complaints filed against the Air Force with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and in Federal Court. Prior to coming to the LFSC, Major Rockenbach was a student at the George Washington University Law School in the Labor Law LLM program. For the three years preceding the LLM program, he served as a circuit trial counsel in what was the Eastern Circuit. While on the circuit, he prosecuted numerous high profile cases and second chaired US v. Witt, the first Air Force capital case to result in a sentence of death in 15 years.

Rock also served as an Area Defense Counsel, Chief of International and Operations Law, Military Justice, Claims, Civil Law, and Labor Law.

Rock has worked extensively with the Air Force ADR program teaching courses at the Air Force civilian personnel school and Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute and has authored course and field materials on alternative dispute resolution of civilian workplace disputes. Prior to entering the Air Force, Rock practiced employment and labor law in the private sector for three years.

Major Rockenbach is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Alabama Supreme Court, and the State Bar of Alabama. He is also admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, and the United States District Court for the Middle and Northern Districts of Alabama.

Major Rockenbach has two children, Katherine “Katie” born June 30, 2005 and Richard born 13 May 2007.

EDUCATION
1992 B.A. in Philosophy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
1995 J.D., University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, AL