Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Jeffery R. Nance to begin hearing cases in October 2018. Judge Nance earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1985 from Brigham Young University, a Juris Doctor from the J. Reuben Clarke School of Law, also at Brigham Young University, in 1988, and a Master of Laws degree in 1997 from the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School. From 1998 to 2018, he was an attorney, circuit judge, and chief circuit judge with the U.S. Army in the following locations: Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Vilseck, Germany; Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort Gordon, Georgia; Heidelberg, Germany; Baghdad, Iraq; Vicenza, Italy, Bad Kreuznach, Germany; Okinawa, Japan; and Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Judge Nance is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and Utah State Bar.