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Biography - Constance A St Germain Driscoll

Professor St. Germain currently serves as the Director of the Criminal Justice and Legal Studies Programs for American Public University System (APUS).

Formerly, she was an attorney in the United States Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Her assignments include XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina where she served as an attorney for the US Army Claims Service; the 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina where she acted as a Legal Assistance attorney, Administrative Law attorney, and Chief of Administrative Law; US Army Trial Defense Service (TDS), Fort Riley, Kansas where she practiced as a Trial Defense Counsel and tried over 86 felony cases in addition to providing legal defense services to the 12,000 soldiers stationed at Fort Riley; the 22nd Legal Support Organization (LSO) Trial Defense Service, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas where she served as a Trial Defense Counsel; the 154th Legal Support Organization (LSO), Trial Defense Service, Alexandria, Virginia where she acted as the S-3 and Trial Defense Counsel; and the US Army Defense Appellate Division, Arlington, Virginia where she worked as an Appellate Defense Attorney.

Professor St. Germain has extensive experience in both trial and appellate litigation. A graduate of the Naval Justice School Capital Litigation Course, she defended, at an appellate rehearing, a military inmate sentenced to death.

After leaving active duty, Professor St. Germain went into private practice where her main areas of concentration were property law, and wills, trusts, and estates.

Professor St. Germain attended George Mason University where she received a B.A. in History and was inducted into the History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta. She subsequently attended the University of Baltimore School of Law, <i>am jured<i/> in International Law, and earned her Juris Doctor degree. She immediately joined the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, and after attending the Officer Basic Course, she promptly headed off to the U.S. Army Airborne School, Ft. Benning, Georgia.

Professor St. Germain has been with APUS since 2003. She currently teaches LSTD301 Constitutional Law, LSTD502 Criminal Law, LSTD503 Criminal Justice Process, LSTD507 International Law, and LSTD506 Property Law.

Professor St. Germain is admitted to practice in Vermont, Virginia, and Maryland, before the Army Court of Criminal Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and the US District Court for the District of Vermont.