Maj Gen Steven J.
Lepper, USAF (Ret)

Steven Lepper is a retired Air Force judge advocate and trustee or director on the boards of multiple non-profit organizations. Following 35 years of active duty Air Force service, culminating in a four-year term as Deputy Judge Advocate General of the Air Force, Steve served for one year as the Director of the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative and for more than nine years as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Military Banks of America, a non-profit trade association founded in 1959 to partner with the Department of Defense for the benefit of military members and their families. A retired major general, Lepper spent most of his career as a legal advisor and counselor to senior U.S. government and military leaders and serving in leadership roles himself.  He was honored to serve as a military judge, deputy legal counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and chief crisis communicator for the Air Force. In addition to his service to Operation Homefront, Lepper currently serves as a director or trustee of the Air and Space Force Aid Society,  Arnold Air Society/Silver Wings, the Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Trust, The Air Force Judge Advocate General’s School Foundation, The American College of National Security Leaders, The Airlift-Tanker Association, the National Institute of Military Justice, and The Leaders’ Council of the Legal Services Corporation. He is also a former Chair of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel.