About R. Davis
R. Davis Younts began his academic path studying government at Liberty University, where he earned a B.S. in 1999. He went on to Dickinson School of Law, receiving his J.D. in 2002. A decade later he completed an M.A. in Military Operational Arts and Sciences at the USAF Air Command and Staff College in 2012. Those three degrees trace a steady movement from civilian government study into legal training and then a specialized military education.
His career has moved along predictable and then increasingly senior lines inside the military justice system. He entered the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps as a prosecutor in 2002. The next year he worked in general law and federal tort claims, and in 2006 he became a defense counsel. Promotions followed: senior defense counsel in 2008 and chief of the Military Justice Division in 2011. He also served as a staff judge advocate in 2012. That sequence put him on both sides of court-martial work and into supervisory roles in military legal practice.
After earning his master’s degree he served as a lawyer-advisor to the Pennsylvania National Guard in 2013. He later took on of-counsel roles for various companies beginning in 2015. In 2019 he launched his own practice, operating under the name R. Davis Younts, Esquire. The move to private practice followed more than a decade of active duty and advisory work in military and federal legal settings.
Younts holds certification as a court-martial lawyer from the United States Air Force and is admitted to practice before the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals and the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He is also admitted in Pennsylvania and in the U.S. District Courts for the Western and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania. Those credentials reflect long experience in military procedure as well as familiarity with federal civil and criminal courts.
Outside courtroom credentials, he maintains memberships in professional and civic organizations, including the Cumberland County Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Home School Legal Defense Association and the Order of Barristers. These affiliations echo the mix of military, legal and community connections that mark his career.
Colleagues describe a lawyer who moved steadily through ranks and responsibilities in the Air Force JAG Corps before shifting to advisory and private practice roles. He founded his firm in 2019 and continues to take cases that draw on his military justice background, appellate experience and federal litigation work.
He currently practices as the principal of his own firm and concentrates on military justice, appeals and federal and state litigation.
