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The Sunday Symposium at Oakmont Village |
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June 28, 2009 Brigadier General Gary Medvigy “Judicial Sector Reform in Afghanistan”
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Brigadier General Gary Medvigy is the Commanding General, 351st Civil Affairs Command, Mountain View, CA. Since 2001 he has served on active duty 3 years, serving on two deployments in Central Command throughout the area of operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Qatar. For 18 months he served on active duty at Moffett Federal Airfield as the commander of the 7th Psychological Operations Command. In 2004 he was assigned to Afghanistan as the lead for coalition forces in reform of the Afghan judicial sector to establish rule of law, fundamental freedoms and human rights by an international standard, and overseen by an independent judiciary, instead of the corruption and religious sharia 'law' as exists today, throughout the instrumentalities of law-police, attorney general, defense counsel, courts and prisons. His talk focused on the progress of that effort. In his civilian career General Medvigy served 19 years as Deputy District Attorney for Sonoma County. In 2007, he was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger as a Superior Court judge for the state of California in Sonoma County. He is currently assigned to the Criminal Division. General Medvigy and his wife Christine live with their four children in Sebastopol. |
