Jim Carlsen

Jim Carlsen is a former US Marine who served as an infantry Company Commander and Judge Advocate at Camp Lejeune and as Senior Appellate Counsel for the Marine Corps in Washington, D.C.

Upon leaving the Marine Corps as a Major, he became a litigation attorney with McGuireWoods, a large international law firm, and later became Assistant General Counsel and Senior Counsel at Northrop Grumman Corporation. He subsequently ran two of Northrop’s major business units and retired after 25 years as a Northrop Grumman executive in 2015.

He obtained his doctorate of law degree in 1981 from the University of Notre Dame attending law school on a full scholarship under the Marine Corps’ Funded Law Education Program. He attended a postdoctoral program in Taxation at Georgetown Law School, and completed executive education at Harvard Business School.

Since retirement, Jim has served as General Counsel for the National Association of Veteran Service Officers and as Director of The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program providing legal and business advice and counsel to both organizations. He has two children, Kathryn–a high school theatre teacher, and Christopher–an aerospace engineer working for Blue Origin in Seattle. His wife, Carrie Carlsen, will be accompanying him to ILI.