They had so much to say, they wrote a whole book about it.

GREGORY HUCKABEE served as a Judge Advocate for the US Army for 27 years and achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He has taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; Jagiellonian University in Poland; Gonzaga University, the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, CO; and currently is a Professor at The University of South Dakota Beacom School of Business. He was instrumental in the drafting of the servicemembers Civil Relief Act in 2003 and holds a Juris Doctor and five Masters degrees. Greg was selected as a Fulbright Scholar in 2000. He is married and has two adult children.

GREGORY M. HUCKABEE

Professor of Business Law

University of South Dakota Beacom School of Business 

          Professor Huckabee received his A.B., M.B.A., and J.D. from Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA.  Commissioned in R.O.T.C. in 1974, he entered active duty in 1976.  He received an LL.M. from The Judge Advocate General’s School in Charlottesville, VA; an M.S. in Education from Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, AL; an M.A. in Congressional Studies from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.; and an LL.M. from The George Washington University National Law Center in Washington, D.C.

          Selected in 2000 by the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars and the U.S. Department of State to be a J. William Fulbright Scholar, Professor Huckabee served as a Senior Lecturer at the Jagiellonian University Center for American Studies in Krakow, Poland, while on active duty.  He taught courses on the American Legal System, Civilian Control Over the Military, and Constitutional Law.  He also lectured at the University of Silesia and the Economics University of Katowice.  He is only the second Judge Advocate in history to be selected for a Fulbright Fellowship.

          After serving 27 years as a Judge Advocate in the Regular Army, he became an Associate Professor of Business Law joining the faculty at the University of South Dakota Beacom School of Business in August 2003.  The student body association selected him Professor of the Year for 2004, a rare honor after only his first year of teaching.  The Dean appointed him Coordinator of International Studies in January 2004.  He was later appointed to a Dr. Clifford Graese/KPMG Peat Marwick Faculty Fellowship for 2005-2006.  In addition to other responsibilities, he became Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, and Law supervising twelve faculty.   In May 2006 he was honored at commencement with the Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest award for teaching bestowed by the University of South Dakota. 

          The School of Business awarded him the School’s 2004 Great Teaching Prizes among 37 faculty for the Best Theoretical Class, the Best Large Class, and the Best Undergraduate Outstanding Undergraduate Core/Required Teacher.  He again was awarded the School’s 2005 Great Teaching Prizes for the Best Outstanding Theoretical Teacher, Outstanding Teacher with Class Size of 21 or Larger, and Outstanding Undergraduate Core/Required Teacher. 

          Professor Huckabee previously held a variety of legal positions as a Regular Army Judge Advocate including Deputy Staff Judge Advocate (Deputy General Counsel), Headquarters, First U.S. Army, Fort Gillem, Georgia, serving as Legal Advisor to the Dept. of Defense (DoD) Joint Task Force in support of the 2001 Presidential Inauguration, and Legal Advisor to the DoD Weapons of Mass Destruction Joint Task Force-East supporting the FBI and FEMA.

          He also served as the Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel), Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico; in the Office of The Judge Advocate General, the Pentagon, as Chief, U.S. Army JAGC Recruiting & Placement Service, and earlier as Deputy Chief, Legal Assistance Division.  While serving in the Pentagon, The Judge Advocate General selected him to represent the Army in performing a legislative drafting service revising the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C App. 501) for the U.S. House of Representatives; subsequently appointed Chair of the DoD Task Force, their completed draft became known as The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, signed into law on Dec. 19, 2003 (50 USC App. 501-596).

          Professor Huckabee served earlier as Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, Chemical and Military Police Centers, Fort McClellan, Alabama; Commander, USA Legal Services Activity, Korea; Administrative Law Attorney, Office of the Judge Advocate, United Nations Command and Eighth U.S. Army, Seoul, Korea.   He also served for three years as an Associate Professor, in the Dept. of Law, at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York.  During an earlier assignment, he performed succeeding duties as Defense Counsel, Legal Assistance Attorney, Claims Judge Advocate, Prosecutor, and Officer in Charge of the Hanau Legal Center, Germany, appearing as counsel in over 200 trials. 

         Within the American Bar Association, he has served as a member of the Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel (LAMP) and Editor of The Lamplighter, 1992-1995; Chair, Military Law Committee, General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Section, 1996-1999, 2001-2002; member of the Election Law Advisory Commission, 2001-2002; Council Member, Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division, 1995-1998; Council Member, General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Section, 1998-2002, and member of the Publications Board and Editorial Board of GP Solo Magazine, and Special Issue Editor in 2001.  In 2003 he was appointed by ABA President Dennis Archer to the Presidential Workgroup on Protecting Servicemembers Civil Rights.  He was again appointed to the Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel in 2004 serving until 2007.

         Professor Huckabee is a member of the Gonzaga University Board of Regents. He was selected to serve as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO during the 2012-2013 academic year.

DALE KEISER is a recently-retired Mythology and composition teacher in north Spokane. A devotee of public education, he holds three Bachelor's Degrees and a Master’s Degree in Education. He has been married for 44 years and has two adult children. A 50+ year member of the Boy Scouts of America, he has served as a troop Scoutmaster and as an adviser for the Order of the Arrow. He is an amateur blacksmith, American fur trade enthusiast, and a self-described enforcer of the proper use of apostrophes. This is his second novel.

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Dale Keiser honed his storytelling skills by teaching in the high schools of eastern Washington state. Before that, he worked as a railroad gandy, a law student librarian, a janitor, a will-call clerk in a large warehouse, a church youth worker, a carpenter, and a cook in an upscale seafood restaurant. After 43 years in the public school system, he is now an ornamental blacksmith, partner with his wife Judi in a home school for his grandkids, a re-enactor of the American Fur trade, and a 50-year member of the BSA. He is married to his high school love, has two grown children and two grandchildren, and lives in a house he helped build.

            Education is in his blood. Over the years, he has attended every college in Eastern Washington. He holds a bachelor’s degree and a teaching certificate from WSU, two grueling years of Gonzaga Law School, two bachelor’s degrees from Eastern Washington University, continuing hours at Spokane Community College, a Masters in Secondary Education from Whitworth University, and a PhD in the school of hard knocks handed out by the University of Life where he graduated Summa Cum Loudmouth. He taught in the l980’s in Idaho for a princely sum of $12,000 a year (less taxes, union dues, and school supplies), then eventually moved to Mead High School in Spokane. His real education began in the l970’s when he substitute-taught for five years: he learned to tell lively stories, true or not, interesting or not, to hundreds of students, engaged or not, civil or (often) not.

            A note about his relationship with Greg Huckabee: in 1969, both of these dudes were working as staff members at a Boy Scout summer camp in eastern Washington. After meeting Greg, Dale invited him home for the weekend. Greg insinuated himself instantly with Dale’s family by asking meekly, “Hey, Ma? Would you mind if I did some laundry while I’m here?” Mom Keiser graciously volunteered to help, whereupon Greg promptly unloaded four fully-packed duffel bags crammed with 5 weeks’ worth of reeking clothes. She pretty much disappeared to the basement to get it all sanitized in less than 24 hours. The Keiser clan hasn’t been able to shake him loose from the family even now. Greg and the family kind of…grew attached. He just filled out the family as a fifth sibling.

            Scouting saved Dale from himself. After a sputtering start, summer camp staff jobs and higher-level opportunities started to happen. Fifty years later, while Greg was racking degrees up advanced at Bob’s School of Pedantry and Madame Sophia’s School of Greatness, Dale is still working with the Scouts. He has been a Scoutmaster three times, worked at Philmont Scout Ranch, earned the Order of the Arrow’s Founder Award, served on staff at the 100th year Jamboree, and volunteered at National Conferences for advanced youth training in the Order of the Arrow. This stuff doesn’t go all that well on a resume, but it sure is valuable.