Jack D’Aurora is a retired business lawyer and a contributor to The Columbus Dispatch op-ed section. Jack has written about the enormous costs of the death penalty, why judges should be appointed and not elected, human trafficking, gun policy, payday loans and other legal and social justice issues. He obtained his law degree from Georgetown.
A native of Steubenville, Ohio, Jack graduated from Notre Dame and was commissioned in the U.S. Navy in 1977. He received his Naval Flight Officer wings in 1978 and was assigned to an F-14 squadron in San Diego in 1979. During two western Pacific deployments, he logged over 300 carrier-arrested landings aboard the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk.