About R. Davis
R. Davis Younts began his academic path reading authorities at Liberty University, where he earned a B.S. in 1999. He went directly to Dickinson School of Law, receiving his J.D. in 2002. A decade later he completed a M.A. in Military Operational Arts and Sciences on the USAF Air Command and Staff College in 2012. Those three degrees trace a steady movement from civilian government learn about into legal training and then a specialised army education.
His career has moved alongside predictable after which increasingly senior lines inside the army justice system. He entered the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps as a prosecutor in 2002. The next yr he worked generally regulation and federal civil wrong claims, and in 2006 he have become a defense counsel. Promotions followed: senior criminal defense lawyer in 2008 and leader of the Military Justice Division in 2011. He also served as a staff judge advocate in 2012. That sequence put him on both facets of courtroom-martial work and into supervisory roles in army legal practice.
After earning his master’s diploma he served as a lawyer-consultant to the Pennsylvania National Guard in 2013. He later took on of-counsel roles for a number of companies starting in 2015. In 2019 he released his own practice, operating under the name R. Davis Younts, Esquire. The pass to private practice observed more than a decade of active obligation and advisory work in army and federal legal settings.
Younts holds certification as a court-martial lawyer from the United States Air Force and is licensed to practice before the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals and the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He is likewise licensed in Pennsylvania and within the U.S. District Courts for the Western and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania. Those credentials mirror long knowledge in military procedure as well as familiarity with federal civil and criminal courts.
Outside court credentials, he keeps memberships in professional and civic organizations, including the Cumberland County Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Home School Legal Defense Association and the Order of Barristers. These affiliations echo the mix of army, legal and network connections that mark his career.
Colleagues describe a lawyer who moved steadily through ranks and duties within the Air Force JAG Corps earlier than moving to advisory and private practice roles. He based his company in 2019 and continues to take cases that draw on his army justice background, appellate knowledge and federal legal proceedings work.
He presently practices as the principal of his personal company and concentrates on army justice, appeals and federal and state litigation.
