Bruce MacDonald

Bruce MacDonald is an American lawyer, and retired officer in the United States Navy. He is the former head of the Navy's Judge Advocate General Corp, retiring in 2006 as a three star Admiral. On March 24, 2010, Newsweek reported that MacDonald who had helped draft the Military Commissions Act of 2009, had been appointed the Convening Authority for the Office of Military Commissions, replaceing Susan J. Crawford.

MacDonald joined the Navy in 1978. He earned his Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law in 1987. Subsequently he earned a Master's degree in International Law from Harvard Law School.

Carol Rosenberg, of the Miami Herald, reports that MacDonald had testified before the United States Congress on numerous occasions, defending the Guantanamo Military Commission system.