Jacqueline M. Gall is Chief Acquisition and Fiscal Law, where she serves as Senior Acquisition Attorney in the Directorate of Acquisition Law, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. The Directorate of Acquisition Law advises all Headquarters directors and staff on acquisition and fiscal law-related matters and oversees resolution of command-wide acquisition and fiscal law issues generated by six centers, which account for two-thirds of the total Air Force acquisition budget. She is current lead legal advisor on Digital Acceleration Task Force (DATF), Cyber Security and Supply Chain Risk Management concerns for the AFMC enterprise. She was the primary Legal Advisor for Department of the Air Force Acquisition Task Force (DAFACT), on the multibillion-dollar Industrial Based Capacity Expansion efforts for COVID-19 response, detection, relief and treatment, involving close coordination across the Department of Defense and inter-agency with Health and Human Services. She was also the senior legal advisor on a classified source selection valued at $4.5B, resulting in successful award, posed to save over $10 million and successfully defending two additional protests.
Prior to moving to her current role, she served as Program Counsel in the Air Force Materiel Command Law Office (AFMCLO), Contract Law Division, located at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, 2010-2020. As Chief Counsel for the B-2 and F-15 programs, she handled a complex portfolio, to include numerous Foreign Military Sales programs and advising on the $23Billion acquisition of a new fleet of F-15EX aircraft to replace the aging F-15C/D model aircraft. From 2017-2018, she was hand-selected to be on the Source Selection team and the Intellectual Property and Data Rights lead legal advisor for the APT(T-7) program, which resulted in a successful award, with nearly $10Billion in savings and no protest. From 2011-2016, she served as Chief Counsel to 645th AESG (Big Safari) which supports a portfolio of over 50 projects totaling over $3 Billion annually, in this role she was named in the 2014 Intelligence Community Attorney of the Year.
Prior to working for the Air Force, Ms. Gall worked for the United States Army as civilian attorney and an active-duty Army Judge Advocate. While on Active Duty she served in a myriad of assignments: Client Services Attorney, Claims Judge Advocate, Trial Counsel, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Contract and Fiscal Law Attorney, Designated Agency Ethics Official, and Brigade Judge Advocate.
COL Gall joined the Army Reserves, in April 2009, where she has served as: Chief of Legal Assistance for the 84th Training Command; an Adjunct Professor at TJAGLCS; Team Leader with the 9th Legal Operations Detachment; Group Judge Advocate, 643rd Regional Support Group; and Chief of Military Justice at 351 Civil Affairs Command (CACOM), Mountain View, CA. The 351 CACOM leads operational and strategic civil affairs and civil military operations in support of INDOPACOM, USARPAC, UNC, CFC, and USFK. She currently is the Commander of 22nd Legal Operations Detachment (Trial Defense Services).
Jacqueline Gall
Jacqueline Gall
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Degrees
B.A., Criminal Justice and Political Science, magna cum laude, University of Dayton, 2001
J.D., magna cum laude, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 2004
Masters in Strategic Studies, Superior Graduate and Seminar Chair, US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA, 2024
Honors
2021 Air Force General Counsel's Procurement Attorney of the Year
2014 United States Intelligence Community Attorney of the Year
2012 Air Force Materiel Command Law Office Outstanding Civilian Attorney
Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters
Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster
Army Achievement Medal
National Defense Service Medal
Parachutist Badge
Army Reserve Component Overseas Training Ribbon with oak leaf cluster
Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal with three oak leaf cluster