About Deborah Ann

Deborah Ann Hooper trained at Boston College Law School and started her career on the bench of real-world military practice. She earned her J.D. in 1980 after finishing a B.A. in politics and sociology at Brandeis University in 1976. Those years set the stage for a legal path that could pass among military courts, civilian firms, and local government service.

Her early work used to be rooted in the United States Army Trial Defense Service. In 1984 she served as defense counsel with the third Armored Division in Hanau, Germany. Two years later she have become assistant body of workers pass judgement on recommend and chief trial counsel for the third Armored Division in Gießen, Germany. She persisted in senior defense roles at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, in 1988 and at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, in 1989. Those posts concerned courtroom-martial practice and trial legal proceedings beneath military law and gained her knowledge in excessive-pressure courtroom settings.

In the 1990s Hooper moved among army and civilian practice. She used to be an associate at Chapman, Waters & Baxter in Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1992, and opened a private practice in Cocoa, Florida, in 1993. By 1995 she had taken an associate role at Taylor Horbaly & Black in Fayetteville, operating on military law matters. The series reflects a sample of alternating roles: trial work, advisory work, and solo practice.

Hooper re-established a private practice in Waynesville, Missouri, by 1997 and later served as Pulaski County prosecutor in 2007. Records display she returned to private practice once more in Waynesville in 2011. Her profession consequently spans litigation as a prosecutor, protection roles in military tribunals, and lengthy stretches of solo practice in more than one states. That mixture has shaped her strategy to courtroom procedure and case preparation.

She is admitted in more than one jurisdictions, which includes the highest court of Massachusetts, the Supreme Court of Missouri, the Supreme Court of Florida, the U.S. highest court, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the U.S. Court of Military Review, and the U.S. Court of Military Appeals. Bar memberships recorded include the Massachusetts State Bar (since 1984), the Florida Bar (since 1990), the District of Columbia Bar (since 1993), and the Missouri State Bar (since 1997). She maintains a personal practice in Waynesville, Missouri, the place she handles each civilian and army-related things.

Education

Boston College Law School

J.D. | Law

1980

Brandeis University

B.A. | Politics and Sociology

1976

Experience

Private Practice

Deborah Hooper Lawyer at Law, Waynesville Missouri
2011

County Procecutor

Pulaski County Missouri
2007

Private Practice

Deborah Hooper Lawyer at Law, Waynesville Missouri
1997

Associate

Taylor Horbaly & Black, Lawyers at Millitary Law, Fayetteville, NC
1995

Private Practice

Deborah Hooper Lawyer at Law, Cocoa Florida
1993

Associate

Chapman, Waters, and Baxter, Lawyers at Law. Leavenworth, Kansas
1992

Senior Defense Counsel

United States Army Trial Defense Service, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
1989

Senior Defense Counsel

US Army Trial Defense Service, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
1988

Assistant Staff Judge Advocate, Chief Trial Counsel

United States Army Trial Defense Service, 3rd Armored Divison, Giessen Germany
1986

Defense Counsel

United States Army Trial Defense Service, 3rd Armored Divison, Hanau Germany
1984

Accepted Jurisdictions

District of Columbia Court of Appeals
US Court of Military Review
US Court of Military Appeals
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Missouri
Massachusetts
Supreme Court of Florida
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court of Missouri

Professional Associations

Missouri State Bar

has membership 1997 - Current

District of Columbia Bar

has membership 1993 - Current

Florida Bar

has membership 1990 - Current

Massachusetts State Bar

has membership 1984 - Current

Office Locations

Main Office

 123 North Benton Street Waynesville MO 65583