Robert Gray “Butch” Bracknell, Esquire

Butch Bracknell joined TRG in August 2024 as Senior Advisor. After 22 years in the US Marine Corps as a military lawyer and armor officer, including service in Cuba, Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Germany, he served almost 9 years as a NATO international and business law attorney before moving into civil practice. He has an MSc from the University of Oxford, an LLM from Harvard Law School, a JD from the Francis King Carey School of Law at the University of Maryland, and a BA from the University of North Carolina. He served as Vice Chair, appointed by the Governor of Virginia, of the Commission to Investigate the May 31, 2019 Virginia Beach Mass Shooting, and has experience in civilian police oversight and public employment grievance adjudication. He has been awarded the ABA Military Lawyer of the Year and Judge Advocate Association Career Military Lawyer of the Year honors, and the Senator Benjamin Cardin Award for Public Service.