{"id":6472,"date":"2013-09-09T09:45:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T13:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=6472"},"modified":"2013-09-09T09:45:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T13:45:53","slug":"eric-eversole-94-exec-dir-of-hiring-our-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/09\/09\/eric-eversole-94-exec-dir-of-hiring-our-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Eversole \u201994 \u2013 Exec. Dir. of Hiring Our Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eric Eversole \u201994<\/strong>, former Navy Reserve Judge Advocate Commander, \u201chas been named executive director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation\u2019s &#8220;Hiring Our Heroes&#8221; program and vice president at the U.S. Chamber. Eric will lead the Chamber\u2019s effort to help veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses find meaningful employment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/press\/releases\/2013\/august\/eversole-named-executive-director-hiring-our-heroes\">U. S. Chamber of Commerce press release<\/a>:\u00a0 \u201cPrior to joining Hiring Our Heroes, Eversole spent six years as Attorney Advisor at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission providing legal advice to the chairman and commissioners on issues involving the sale of electric power. In 2010, he founded the Military Voter Protection Project, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting and protecting the voting rights of American service members. Eversole served on active duty with the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General\u2019s Corp (JAG) from 1998-2001. Immediately after his active duty he joined the reserves and in 2011, Eversole was selected to serve as the Executive Officer for one of the largest Reserve JAG units in the Navy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Eric!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/09\/eric-eversole2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6477\" title=\"eric eversole\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/09\/eric-eversole2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/09\/eric-eversole2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/09\/eric-eversole2-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/09\/eric-eversole2-604x270.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo:\u00a0\u00a0Eric Eversole hosted Andrew Dettmer &#8217;15, left, for an internship with the Military Voter Project in Washington, D.C. in summer 2012.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Eversole \u201994, former Navy Reserve Judge Advocate Commander, \u201chas been named executive director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation\u2019s &#8220;Hiring Our Heroes&#8221; program and vice president at the U.S. Chamber. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}