BIOGRAPHY
UNITED
STATES
AIR
FORCE
MAJOR DANIEL E. SCHOENI
Maj Dan Schoeni is a program and fraud counsel at the 66th Air Base Group,
Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. As part of the Air Force Life Cycle
Management Center, the base’s mission is to acquire command and control,
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems for the Air Force. The
men and women of Hanscom manage more than $5.6 billion in programs
annually in support of the Air Force as well as joint and coalition forces. The
group provides services to more than 3,000 active duty, Reserve, and
National Guard military personnel and DoD civilians who work and live at
Hanscom Air Force Base. Additionally, they support more than 125,000
retired military personnel, annuitants, and spouses living in the six-state New
England area and New York.
Maj Schoeni received a direct commission in August 2004. He is licensed
before the Iowa Supreme Court, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals,
the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the Air Force Court of Criminal
Appeals, the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals, the Court of
Federal Claims, and the United States Supreme Court.
In college Maj Schoeni studied philosophy and economics. He also served a two-year church mission to
Mexico and studied abroad in Israel during his undergraduate years. Following law school, he clerked for
the Honorable Jerry L. Larson of the Iowa Supreme Court.
Maj Schoeni hails from rural Iowa, where his parents still reside, and has two brothers: Paul is an artist at
DreamWorks SKG and Chief Petty Officer Steven Schoeni is a Navy SEAL. He is married to the former
Alicia Pereira of Poitiers, France. He is proficient in Spanish and French.
EDUCATION
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2003
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2006
2007
2011
2011
2014
Bachelor of Arts, Brigham Young University (Utah)
Master of Arts (Philosophy), University of Iowa
Juris Doctor, University of Iowa
Squadron Officer School (correspondence)
Squadron Officer School (residence)
Air Command and Staff College (correspondence)
Master of Laws Public Procurement Law & Policy, University of Nottingham (UK)
Master of Laws Government Procurement Law, Highest Honors, George Washington University
ASSIGNMENTS
1. September 2004 - May 2006, Assistant Staff Judge Advocate, 9th Reconnaissance Wing, Beale Air
Force Base, CA
2. June 2006 - August 2007, Assistant Staff Judge Advocate, 435th Air Base Wing/86th Airlift Wing,
Ramstein Air Base, Germany
3. September 2007 - June 2009, Area Defense Counsel, Air Force Legal Operations Agency, Ramstein
Air Base, Germany
4. July 2009 - July 2010, Expeditionary Area Defense Counsel, Air Force Legal Operations Agency, Al
Udeid Air Base, Southwest Asia
5. July 2010 - August 2013, Appellate Defense Counsel, Air Force Legal Operations Agency, Joint Base
Andrews, MD (August 2012 - February 2013, U.S. Southern Command, Staff Judge Advocate Liaison
Officer, USMILGP Bogotá, Colombia)
6. August 2013 - June 2014, Student, Air Force Institute of Technology, George Washington University
Law School, Washington, DC
7. June 2014 - Present, Program & Fraud Counsel, 66th Air Base Group, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA
(Acting Deputy Staff Judge Advocate October 2014 - Present)
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Meritorious Service Medal (1 OLC)
Joint Commendation Medal
Air Force Commendation Medal (1 OLC)
Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
Air Force Expeditionary Service Ribbon with Gold Border
Team Hanscom FGO of the Quarter, December 2014
Second Place, 2014 PCLJ Writing Competition
2014 Gilbert A. Cuneo Moot Court, Semifinalist
AFLOA FGO of the Year 2012
AFLOA/JAJ FGO of the Quarter, July 2011
435 ABW CGO of the Quarter, December 2006
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Why Most Military Convicts Can Never Again Own a Gun: A Court-Martial as a Predicate for the Federal
Offense of “Felon-In-Possession”, co-authored with Major Matthew King (forthcoming)
Beyond the Economic Inefficiency Argument: Some Public Policy Considerations For and Against
Defense Offsets (forthcoming)
 To be presented June 15, 2015, Public Procurement: Global Revolution VII, University of Nottingham
School of Law, Nottingham, UK
A Hidden Statutory Bar to Private Causes of Action for Breaches of the World Trade Organization’s
Agreement on Government Procurement (forthcoming)
 Presented May 13, 2014, The New WTO Government Procurement Agreement: Its Impact on World
Procurement Markets, George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC
Second-Best Markets: On the Hidden Efficiency of Defense Offsets, PUB. CONT. L.J. (forthcoming 2015)
Long on Rhetoric, Short on Results: Agile Methods and Cyber Procurement in the DoD, SANTA CLARA
COMPUTER & HIGH TECH. L. J. (forthcoming 2015)
A View From Bogota, Colombia Through the Eyes of an Iowa Native and Air Force Judge Advocate, IOWA
LAWYER, March 2013
But Who Represents Me? An Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Primer, 1 AFFIRMATIVE DEF. 2 (2012)
Political Rhetoric or “Legislative History”? Fight Admission of Child Porn Report, 2 AFFIRMATIVE DEF. 1
(2011)
Life in the Law: Criminal Defense Work in a War Zone, CLARK MEMORANDUM, Fall 2010
Iowa Attorney and Full-Time JAG Officer Provides a Peek Inside Criminal Defense Work in a War Zone,
IOWA LAWYER, June 2010
The Al Udeid Area Defense Counsel’s Office, 36(4) REPORTER 129 (2009)
EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION
First Lieutenant 13 August 2004
Captain
13 February 2005
Major
1 May 2011
(Current as of January 2015)