Former judge to discuss value of liberal arts, sciences education

Scott Stucky, retired senior judge of the Court of Appeals for the U.S. Armed Forces, will present “The value of a liberal arts and sciences education” at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 30 in 334 Woolsey Hall. 

Stucky graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history from Wichita State in 1970. He was appointed by Former President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2006 to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. His career accomplishments include having served as civilian counsel for the Department of the Air Force, as general counsel of the Senate committee on Armed Services, as a judge advocate Individual Mobilization Augmentee in the Air Force Reserve, and as an appellate military judge on the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals. He became chief judge of the Court of Appeals for the U. S. Armed Forces in August 2017 and, upon the expiration of his term of service in August 2021, he was named senior judge.