ABOUT US

ARM Founders

Doug Anderson is co-founder and President of America Reclaimed Ministries. He is an attorney licensed in both Oregon and Virginia, as well as a licensed minister. Doug received his B.S. degree in political science at the University of Oregon in 1978 and his Juris Doctorate degree at Pepperdine Law School in 1981. At Pepperdine Law School, Doug was a staff member of the Pepperdine Law Review. He also was on the first place team, submitted the first place respondent’s brief, and was named the top oral advocate in Pepperdine’s moot court competition where he argued the final round before former Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun.

Following law school, Doug practiced law in the State of Oregon with the Corvallis firm of Ringo, Walton & Eves and then as a Deputy District Attorney in Newport, Oregon. In 1985 he entered the Air Force where he was named the 1988 Company Grade Officer of the Year for Los Angeles AFB, and was the Air Force Space Command’s Young Judge Advocate of the Year in 1993. In 1995 he received his Master of Law degree from the Army Judge Advocate General School specializing in International Law. He served for three years as the Air Force’s sole attorney in Spain from 1995-1998, led international law teams to various South American countries to teach their militaries from 1998-2001, assisted in the drafting of the strategic nuclear weapons treaty between the U.S. and Russia (“The Moscow Treaty”) in 2002, and worked at the United Nations as the Department of Defense’s sole representative on the First Committee in New York in 2003. Following his last tour as legal advisor on targets, weaponry, and the law of armed conflict at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, he retired from the United States Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel on 1 August 2005.

Doug is the co-author of the book, Contending for the Constitution, and he has published a series of booklets called America’s Founding Principles Series. He has also published several law review articles and has been a seminar and conference speaker teaching on various international law topics as well as on the biblical principles of law in America.

Doug has been a volunteer staff member for the Providence Foundation since 1994 and is currently Chairman and member of its Board of Directors. He and his wife Laura reside in Woodbridge, Virginia with their two children, Paul and Christina.