Amy Luyster

Amy Luyster is the Deputy General Counsel for Personnel and Health Policy in the Office of the General Counsel of the Department of War. In this role, Ms. Luyster leads a team whose primary clients are the Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness and the Director of Administration and Management. Her team handles an expansive array of legal issues in subject matter areas such as military and civilian personnel; labor and employment law; health affairs; military justice; organization, functions, and authorities; the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, as amended; family policy; dependents' education; readiness; reserve affairs; non-appropriated fund instrumentalities; and awards and decorations.

In addition, Ms. Luyster supervises the Director of the Standards of Conduct Office; the Director of the Office of Legal Policy; and the General Counsels for the Defense Health Agency (DHA), the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA), the Defense Human Resources Activity (DHRA), the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), National Defense University (NDU), the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), White House Military Office (WHMO), and Washington Headquarters Service and Pentagon Force Protection Agency (WHS & PFPA).  Ms. Luyster is also the Secretary of War's designee to oversee defense services in military commissions.

Ms. Luyster retired with 23 years of active-duty military service with the Army and served as a Judge Advocate for 16 of those years. With assignments that included deployments to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, and Afghanistan, she assumed leadership roles in positions of increasing responsibility throughout her career, advising commanders and senior decision-makers within the Department of the Army.  Ms. Luyster most recently served as a civilian Associate General Counsel in the Army General Counsel’s Operations & Personnel practice group.

Hailing from Piedmont, Ohio, Ms. Luyster was commissioned as a military intelligence officer following graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point.  She received her juris doctorate from the University of Oklahoma School of Law.  She is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Satellite Course at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and she received a Masters in Military Law from The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School.  She serves on several non-profit boards, served as a past-President of the Clifton Horse Society, and volunteers with a local therapeutic riding and equine-assisted activities program.