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Dec 1, 2014 · Col. Don Christensen served for four years as the Air Force’s top prosecutor, winning a series of major sexual-assault cases, including the high-profile conviction of Lt. Col. James Wilkerson, a...
Nov 26, 2014 · Col. Don Christensen, the chief prosecutor of the United States Air Force, sat in economy class on a flight to Venice and studied the folder of the sexual-assault case that would ultimately...
Jan 5, 2015 · Don Christensen left the Air Force in 2015 to lead Protect Our Defenders, a group that fights for victims of military sexual assault. He criticized the military justice system for its bias, delays and lack of accountability, citing his own experience as a prosecutor and his successful conviction of a lieutenant colonel.
Protect Our Defenders (POD) is the pre-eminent national human rights organization dedicated to ending sexual violence, victim retaliation, misogyny, sexual prejudice, and racism in the military and combating a culture that has allowed it to persist.
Don Christensen, Colonel, USAF (Ret.) served as chief prosecutor for the United States Air Force between 2010 and 2014. He served as a trial counsel, defense...
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Nov 26, 2014 · Don Christensen is a retired colonel who served as the Air Force Chief Prosecutor for four years and left the military to join Protect Our Defenders, an organization that advocates for sexual assault victims in the military. He has witnessed the failures of the military justice system and calls for fundamental reform to end the abuse and injustice faced by survivors.
Mar 24, 2021 · Don Christensen, former Air Force Chief Prosecutor and President of Protect Our Defenders, spoke before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the failure of the military justice system to hold perpetrators accountable. He advocated for professionalizing and modernizing the system and argued that commanders alone are not the solution to sexual assault and harassment.
