Brigadier General Shane Reeves Appointed President of the University of Wyoming

Brigadier General Shane Reeves, dean of the Academic Board of the U.S Military Academy at West Point has been appointed as the 29^th President of the University of Wyoming effective July 2026.  Reeves  holds a Master of Laws in military law from the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, a Juris Doctor from the College of William and Mary and a Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy (USMA). He is admitted to practice law before the Virginia State Bar, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Commissioned in 1996 from USMA, he attending law school in 2003 and transitioned into the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. As a judge advocate, he served in several legal positions, including chief of legal assistance at Fort Riley, Kansas; brigade judge advocate in the 1st Armored Division in Taji, Iraq; senior trial counsel for the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley; professor of international and operational law at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia; and deputy staff judge advocate of Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Liberty, North Carolina.

Reeves taught for 10 years in USMA's law department.