Chris Lawson

Chris Lawson is the speechwriter to the Secretary of the Army, the Honorable John M. McHugh, and was previously the chief civilian speechwriter to the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey. Lawson is a former national security correspondent for Gannett, as well as the former managing editor for the Army Times and the Navy Times newspapers, and a former managing editor for Men's Health Magazine. He served for six years as a Marine Corps Combat Correspondent, from 1985 to 1991, and was the Corps' Journalist of the Year in 1989. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Jessica, and three sons, Max, Benjamin and Cameron.