BTM96 - Mary Reding - Supporting Military Spouses in the Legal Profession
Show Summary
On today's episode, we feature a conversation with military spouse Mary Reding, co-founder and founding President of the Military Spouse JD Network, an advocacy organization that works towards licensing accommodations for military spouses, including bar membership without additional examination, as well as providing an opportunity to network with other military spouses with a Juris Doctorate degree.
About Today’s Guest
Mary Reding is a government affairs exec with diverse private sector, non-profit, and public sector experience. Government experience includes leading the Office of Executive Councils and managing the development, implementation, and setting performance standards for management initiatives across the center of government through the ten C-Suite Executive boards including the President’s Management Council, Chief Financial Officers Council, Chief Information Officers Council, and the Performance Improvement Council. Mary now continues the #goodgov work at Grant Thornton Public Sector focusing on improving efficiencies for our Veteran’s community at the VA and across the Defense portfolio.
In addition to government service, Mary has a foundation in corporate law and non-profits serving as in-house counsel for Pebble Beach Company (www.pebblebeach.com) and leading international IT transformation team for Aviva Corporate (www.aviva.com).
Mary started advocating for licensing accommodations in 2010 and created the Military Spouse JD Network in 2011 and served as the founding President. Lobbying efforts were recognized by the DC Women’s Bar (awarded the DC “Star of the Bar”) and by the American Bar Association (honored w/ Grassroots Advocacy award for MSJDN).
The development of the workforce matters to Mary and she has mentored rising stars in business, in the military community, and in government through the creation of the CXO Fellows program and Homefront Rising. In 2018, Mary was selected as a Presidential Leadership Scholar building a bi-partisan community to solve our nation’s most important problems. And… she has the best volunteer job ever – Girl Scout troop leader.
PsychArmor Resource of the Week
The PsychArmor Resource of the Week is the PsychArmor course, Legal Issues and Documents Caregivers Need. This course provides ideas for the kinds of legal issues a caregiver will want to be aware of, what conversations to have with your service member or Veteran, and what documents caregivers might need to have handy for long-term care. You can find a link to the resource here: https://learn.psycharmor.org/courses/legal-issues-documents-caregivers-need.
Links Mentioned In This Episode
Theme Music
Our theme music Don’t Kill the Messenger was written and performed by Navy Veteran Jerry Maniscalco, in cooperation with Operation Encore, a non profit committed to supporting singer/songwriter and musicians across the military and Veteran communities.
This Episode Sponsored By:
This episode is sponsored by PsychArmor, the premier education and learning ecosystem specializing in military culture content. PsychArmor offers an online e-learning laboratory with custom training options for organizations.
Producer and Host Duane France is a retired Army Noncommissioned Officer, combat veteran, and clinical mental health counselor for service members, veterans, and their families. You can find more about the work that he is doing at www.veteranmentalhealth.com
