About the Author
Don Brown, a former U.S. Navy JAG Officer, is a nationally best-selling author of books of military fiction and nonfiction. He is the author of sixteen books released by various national publishers.
Don was born in Plymouth, North Carolina. He received a Bachelors Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his law degree from Campbell University's Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law. Don continued his education in the Navy at the Naval War College where he earned the Navy's nonresident certificate in international law. Don spent five years on active duty as a member of the US Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps in the Pentagon. He received the Navy Achievement Medal, the Navy Commendation Medal and the National Defense Service Medal. He also worked as a US Attorney in California. When Don separated from the service he had risen to the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
Don currently practices law at his firm Brown & Associates and lives in the Charlotte, NC area. He began writing books shortly after his time in the military. He has since written 16 books, both fiction and nonfiction in the military/legal genres. His nonfiction titles range from biographies of military heroes to injustices in both the military and civilian legal system. His first book "Treason" is said to have "predicted" the Fort Hood incident. His book "Call Sign Extortion 17" was the basis for the 2021 docudrama "Fallen Angel". He has been on the Publishers Weekly Bestsellers List and his book "The Last Fighter Pilot" was called a "Must Read" by the New York Post and endorsed by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.
In 2018, Don was one of four military JAG officers who took up the defense of Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance. Lorance had been convicted by court-martial of second degree murder. Don's subsequent book about the irregularities in the trial, "Travesty of Justice", detailed how the defense team learned that prosecutors withheld critical evidence showing that the men Lorance and his platoon fired on were actually Taliban bomb makers and that evidence would have exonerated Lorance and his team. After the trial, Don made multiple media appearances discussing all of these facts. His efforts ultimately led to a Presidential pardon of Lorance by President Trump.
Don is sought after in the media, television, radio, and news sites, on a daily basis, for his opinion regarding legal and political matters of the day. He has also been part of legal teams addressing some of the most important issues in the political arena, such as the voting irregularities that occurred during the 2020 election. In addition to all of that, Don is routinely invited to speak at events where he has detailed all of his experiences as a JAG officer and attorney. He developed a lecture series to educate the public on the importance of our most sacred rights. Don is also a former US Senate candidate for the state of North Carolina.
