Bryan Wheeler serves as Associate General Counsel with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)/TRICARE Management Activity (TMA), Falls Church, VA. His primary duties are serving as counsel to the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury and the TRICARE Regional Office-North.

In 1995, the Department of Defense selected him as the first military lawyer to participate in Military Health Services System (MHSS) 2020, a project to plan the future of military medical care over the next 25 years. He was a substantial contributor to the project and subsequently co-wrote a chapter in the DoD book, Envisioning Tomorrow: to Focus Today’s Resources. He has tried over 200 courts-martial as a prosecutor, defense counsel, and military judge and argued numerous cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the United States Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals. After retiring from the Air Force and prior to assuming his current duties, he served as the Deputy Director, Investigative Project on Terrorism, a counter-terrorism “think tank” in Washington, DC. He has appeared on “CBS 60 Minutes” and National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”

He is a member of the State Bar of Kansas and is licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, Supreme Court of Kansas, and various federal district and appellate courts.