CARLETON R. CRAMER
Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.)

Program Manager - Comprehensive Security Responses to Terrorism course

Area of Expertise - Terrorism, International Law

Captain Carleton R. Cramer is a retired career Naval Officer and member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He grew up on Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Captain Cramer completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1979 at the University of California, Santa Barbara with majors in History and Political Science and a minor in Economics (cum laude). In 1982, he earned his Juris Doctor at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (honor graduate), during which period he served as a writer and managing editor for the Pacific Law Journal. Upon completion of law school, he commenced a one-year judicial clerkship for Associate Justice Edward Nakamura, Supreme Court of Hawaii. In 1983 he graduated from the Naval Justice School (honor graduate) and in 1993 he earned his Masters of Law from The Judge Advocate General's School located on the University of Virginia law school campus.

Captain Cramer is an operational lawyer, currently assigned as a Professor of Military Law, Department of Policy Studies, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies. Previous duty assignments include: defense counsel; trial counsel; Staff Judge Advocate Naval Air Station Barbers Point; Officer In Charge, Naval Legal Service Office Detachment Cecil Field; SJA USS SARATOGA (CV 60); SJA, Naval Special Warfare Development Group; SJA Commander Patrol Wings, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Executive Officer, Naval Legal Service Office Mid-Pacific; Division Director, Office of the Judge Advocate General; Force/Fleet Judge Advocate, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command & Commander FIFTH Fleet; and Commanding Officer, Trial Service Office Pacific. During Summer 2004, Captain Cramer deployed to Southwest Asia as part of a Secretary of Defense team reviewing detainee policy and operations during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. In Winter 2004, he deployed to Iraq to train members of the Commission on Public Integrity.

Captain Cramer is a graduate of the U.S. Army Airborne School, Air Assault School (honor graduate), Military Freefall Course, and the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) course. An accomplished parachutist, he has accumulated over 1,200 freefall jumps, and achieved jumpmaster (S/L) and tandem instructor ratings.

A member of both the California and Hawaii State Bars, Captain Cramer is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court, District of Hawaii. Additionally, he has served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney. 

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Last updated: 06/26/2008