Candidate for
United States Representative; District 53

Captain Lawrence P. Rockwood II is a fourth-generation soldier in the U.S. Army. He joined the Army in 1977. His military assignments include working with Hawk and Patriot ground to air missiles as an Air Defense officer, involvement in anti-insurgency / anti-drug operations in Central America as counter-intelligence intelligence officer, and support of humanitarian operations in Somalia as a strategic intelligence officer.

After fifteen years of military service, he was separated from the US Army because of his action as a military intelligence officer. Concerned with human rights violations occurring in the proximity of US forces in Haiti and perceiving what appeared to him as indifference on the part of his command toward those suffering from these violations, he conducted an unauthorized survey of the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince for which he was later court martialed.

Since his separation from of the service he as served as a Fellow for Center for International Policy, a consultant for the Institute for Policy Studies, a member of Amnesty International's Military, Police, and Security Working Group. While accepting speaking engagements at numerous military forums on military ethics and human rights, he is presently an adjunct professor in the history department at California State University at San Marcos. He and his wife, Dr. Amelia Simpson, are coauthors of a forthcoming book on human rights and military professionalism.