DeanWashburn School of Law
Thomas J. Romig, Major General, US Army, retired, Acting Chief Counsel, Federal Aviation Adminstration, was selected as the Deputy Chief Counsel for Operations in December 2005. This key executive position within the FAA legal department is responsible for oversight of the Office of Chief Counsel enforcement and compliance program, airport and environmental matters, and personnel and labor law functions, as well as the nine multi-disciplinary regional counsel offices and the Aeronautical Center Counsel Office. He has been the Acting Chief Counsel of the FAA since October 2006. General Romig is the Dean-select for Washburn University School of Law and will assume the position July 1, 2007.
Immediately prior to joining the FAA, General Romig served for four years as the 36th Judge Advocate General of the Army. He led and supervised an organization of over 9,000 personnel comprised of 5,000 active and reserve military and civilian attorneys and over 4,000 paralegal and support personnel spread throughout 328 separate offices in 22 countries. He oversaw a world-wide legal practice including civil and criminal litigation, international law, administrative law, labor and employment law, environmental law, claims, and ethics compliance. In October 2005, after 34 years of service, General Romig retired from the Army.
A native of Manhattan, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Sciences from Kansas State University in 1970. He was commissioned through the Army ROTC program and served 6 years as a Military Intelligence Officer before being selected for the Army Fully Funded Law School program. He attended Santa Clara University School of Law where he was an editor on the Santa Clara Law Review and a member of the Honors Moot Court Board. He graduated with honors from law school in 1980.
He had a variety of military legal assignments including prosecuting felony and misdemeanor criminal cases, teaching international law at the Judge Advocate General’s School in Charlottesville, Virginia, Chief of Planning for the JAG Corps, Chief Legal Officer for Army Air Defense forces in Europe, Chief of Personnel Assignments, Chief Legal Officer for US Army V Corps and US Army forces in the Balkans. Immediately before his final assignment as The Judge Advocate General, he was the Chief of Army Civil Law and Litigation, followed by Chief of Military Law and Operations both in Washington, DC.
General Romig and his wife Pam have two sons and two grandsons.