KURT SCHLICHTER is the senior columnist at Townhall.com, where his column appears twice a week. He is also a Los Angeles trial lawyer admitted in California, Texas, and Washington, DC, and a retired Army Infantry colonel.
A Twitter activist (@KurtSchlichter) with over 150,000 followers, Kurt was personally recruited by Andrew Breitbart to write for the pre-Bannon-era Brietbart.com. His writings on political and cultural issues have been published in the New York Post, IJ Review, The Federalist, the Washington Examiner, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Washington Times, Army Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and elsewhere.
Kurt serves as an on-screen commentator and guest regarding political, military, and legal issues, and has appeared on Fox News, Fox Business News, CNN, NewsMax, One America Network, The Blaze, The Hugh Hewitt Show, The Dr. Drew Show, The Larry Elder Show, The Tony Katz Show, The John Cardillo Show, The Dana Loesch Show, The Larry O’Connor Show, and The Derek Hunter Show, among others. Kurt appears weekly on Cam and Company with Cam Edwards.
In 2014, his book Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2013–2041 was published by Post Tree Press. His 2016 novel People’s Republic and its 2017 prequel Indian Country reached numbers 1 and 2, respectively, on the Amazon Kindle “Political Thriller” bestseller list.
Kurt is a successful trial lawyer and name partner in a Los Angeles law firm representing companies and individuals in matters ranging from routine business cases to confidential Hollywood disputes and political controversies. A member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which recognizes attorneys who have won trial verdicts in excess of $1 million, his litigation strategy and legal analysis articles have been published in legal publications such as the Los Angeles Daily Journal and California Lawyer.
He is frequently engaged by noted conservatives in need of legal representation, and he was counsel for political commentator and author Ben Shapiro in the successful defense of the widely publicized “Clock Boy” defamation lawsuit.
Kurt is a 1994 graduate of Loyola Law School, where he was a law review editor. He majored in communications and political science as an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego, co-editing the conservative student paper California Review while also writing a regular column in the student humor paper The Koala.
Kurt served as a US Army infantry officer on active duty and in the California Army National Guard, retiring at the rank of full colonel. He wears the silver “jump wings” of a paratrooper and commanded the 1st Squadron, 18th Cavalry Regiment (Reconnaissance-Surveillance-Target Acquisition). A veteran of both the Persian Gulf War and Operation Enduring Freedom (Kosovo), he is a graduate of the Army’s Combined Arms and Services Staff School, the Command and General Staff College, and the United States Army War College, where he received a master’s degree in Strategic Studies.
He and his wife Irina live in the Los Angeles area with Bitey the Dog.