Rand R. Pixa

Rand R. Pixa

Rand R. Pixa serves as the Maritime Administration’s senior career lawyer in the position of Deputy Chief Counsel and Acting Chief Counsel in that official’s absence. Prior to joining the Maritime Administration in June, 2006, he served as a special assistant to the Chief Counsel of the Army Corps of Engineers, a Justice Department trial attorney in admiralty and aviation practice, and in various positions in the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps including Chief Information Officer, Admiralty Counsel of the Navy, Inspector General, international legal advisor, general manager of a Naval Legal Service Office, senior legal advisor, and prosecutor.

Mr. Pixa is an occasional lecturer at the International Maritime Law Institute and a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute, and American Bar Association Government and Public Service Lawyers Division. A graduate of the the University of Virignia Law School, Mr. Pixa was commissioned from the Ohio State University regular Navy ROTC program and served at sea prior to law school. He retired from active duty in the Navy in 2002. With an avid interest in maritime history, he led the effort to enact the 2004 Sunken Military Craft Act.