William P. Greene earned a B.A. in Political Science at West Virginia State College in 1965, and a J.D. from Howard University School of Law in 1968. Then he was appointed a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. During his service as a Judge Advocate, he completed his military education at the Judge Advocate General’s School in Charlottesville, Virginia; the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Greene held several positions in the Army, including Chief Prosecutor at Fort Knox, Kentucky; Chief Defense Council in the Army Command, in Hawaii; and Chief Recruiter for Lawyers. After that, in 1981, the Judge Advocate General of the Army selected him as the Department Chair of the Criminal law Division at the Judge Advocate General’s School. In addition, he served in Germany as the Deputy Staff Judge Advocate of the Second Infantry Division. Then in 1986 he was selected as the Staff Judge Advocate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, in New York, and after that he served as Staff Judge Advocate at Fort Leavenworth, Texas. Greene retired from the Army to accept an appointment as a U.S. Immigration Judge. While he was in that job, on May 16, 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed him to become a CAVC judge. Greene assumed the responsibilities of Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims on August 8, 2005.