Clinic Faculty and Staff
Michael Dick, Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.)
Director, The Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic
Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Email: Mike Dick
Currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Law with the Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic, Mike spent 26+ years on active duty in the Marine Corps, largely as an infantry officer, before attending William & Mary Law School. During his Marine Corps career, Mike served in various U.S. and NATO staff positions involving unilateral, multi-national, and inter-agency coordination responsibilities, including assignments as a rifle company commander, Marine Expeditionary Unit Operations Officer, infantry battalion commander, and NATO Senior Staff Officer at NATO HQ in Brussels, Belgium. With almost eight years of overseas service, his assignments included numerous leadership positions involving operations in such places as Lebanon, Grenada, Somalia, Bosnia, and Liberia. His final active duty assignment was as the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 (Operations, Plans, Training) for the 2d Marine Division, where he served as the principal advisor to Division Commander on the operational employment of the 16,000-member Division. Mike is a graduate of the USMC Command and Staff College, USMC School of Advanced Warfighting, and the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy.
Upon graduation from William & Mary Law School, Mike joined the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) via the Attorney General’s Honors Program and served with the Office of Intelligence, a component of DOJ’s National Security Division, where his responsibilities involved representing the U.S. Government before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain authorization for sensitive intelligence operations involving national security, terrorism and counterintelligence issues. In 2014, Mike joined the Office of International Affairs (OIA) in the Criminal Division of DOJ, where he handled casework involving international extradition and mutual legal assistance matters. He subsequently led a team of attorneys and support personnel that focused on analyzing strategic issues involving complex matters of significant concern to the Director of OIA. His last assignment at OIA was as the Associate Director for Policy, Legislation, and Multilateral Affairs. In this role he supervised a team of attorneys and support personnel in addressing challenging policy issues, to include national security matters; OIA/DOJ participation in multi-national organizations targeting transnational organized crime; supporting international anticorruption efforts; cyber/technology issues; reviewing proposed U.S. legislation; and served as OIA Counterterrorism Coordinator.
Mike was appointed to the Virginia Board of Veterans Services by Governor Terry McAuliffe in 2016 and currently serves as Chair of the Board. Mike is also currently serving as the President of the William & Mary Law School Association.
Zachary R.M. Outzen, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Reserve
Assistant Director, The Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic
Professor of the Practice
Email: Zach Outzen
Zach Outzen is a Professor of the Practice and Assistant Director of the Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic. Prior to joining the William & Mary Law School clinical faculty, Zach was a Staff Attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow at the National Veterans Legal Services Program, where he established the first and only national pro bono network to provide legal assistance to traumatically injured Service members and veterans seeking military insurance benefits. Through this program, Zach recovered over $1 million in military insurance benefits while leading regulatory and legislative efforts to expand access to benefits. He also provided representation with discharge upgrades and military medical retirements and engaged in impact litigation.
Zach received a Juris Doctor from William & Mary Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in English Language & Literature from Christopher Newport University. While attending William & Mary Law School, he was the Symposium Editor for the William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review, a Student Assembly Senator, and a student of the Puller Clinic. He currently serves as a Fellow for the American Bar Association Commission on Homelessness & Poverty. Zach is also a Reserve Judge Advocate and military officer in the U.S. Army JAG Corps, as well as a proud family member to six Army veterans.
Dr. Judith L. Johnson
Clinical Psychologist
Email: [[jljohnson02,Judith Johnson]]
Dr. Judith L. Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with specialty training in Health Psychology, military culture, Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and psychological assessment. She received her Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago and completed her clinical internship and post-doctoral residency at the New Orleans V.A. Medical Center. Much of her work was with former Prisoners-of-War (POWs) and in documenting cognitive deficits and post-traumatic stress disorder related to their captivity experience. She has several books and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, and has lectured in the Middle East regarding POWS and PTSD. Currently, Dr. Johnson is the consulting Clinical Psychologist at the Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic, School of Law, College of William & Mary.
Elizabeth Tarloski
Adjunct and MVHPA Faculty
Email: [[eatarloski,Elizabeth Tarloski]]
Elizabeth Tarloski is a staff attorney with NVLSP. She represents veterans before the Board of Veterans’ Appeals and U.S. Court of Veterans Claims and provides training to veterans advocates nationwide. Additionally, she is an author of the Veterans Benefits Manual.
Before joining NVLSP, Ms. Tarloski was a staff attorney at the Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania Veterans Advocacy Project. She served as an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Fellow at Widner Law School's Veteran's Benefits Clinic before she moved on to a position as Visiting Professor at the William and Mary Law School Lewis B. Puller Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic where she developed and taught the first law school clinic class nationwide to focus exclusively on Veterans Benefits cases specific to Military Sexual Trauma and helped to create and teach the online certificate course ‘Psychological Challenges and Resulting Legal Issues for Service Members and Veterans. She also served on the Supreme Court of Virginia – Special Committee on Best Practices for Veterans’ Dockets and worked with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Veterans’ Initiative Program.
Ms. Tarloski is a graduate of the University of San Diego (B.A.), the London School of Economics and Political Science (M.S.) and Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law (J.D.). She is a member of the Pennsylvania State Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.