Stephanie Kral

Stephanie commissioned in the United States Air Force as a First Lieutenant and member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps in 2011. She served until 2018, having achieved the rank of Major. She comes from an honorable line of Air Force veterans. Her grandfather served as a gunner on the B-29 Superfortress during the Korean War. Her father served in Aircraft Maintenance for a variety of airframes, including the A-10 Thunderbolt II, F-4G Wild Weasels, F-15 Eagle, and F-16 Fighting Falcon. He deployed in support of Operation Southern Watch, and retired as the Equipment Maintenance Squadron Production Supervisor. Some of Stephanie's favorite memories are from growing up around her dad's shop on the flight line. Other members of her family have served in different services and eras, dating back to the Revolutionary War.

After Stephanie commissioned, she earned a reputation as one of the Air Force's best litigators through her intense work ethic, natural talents in the courtroom, and dedication to her clients. She met Abby in 2012, and they quickly realized they worked incredibly well together in all aspects of trial preparation and litigation. Early in her career, Steph became the Chief of Military Justice of the busiest military justice base in the United States. Steph supervised the prosecution of 30 criminal trials, including multiple fully-litigated complex cases, while personally prosecuting criminal trials and serving as the legal advisor for federal law enforcement investigations.

Stephanie was competitively selected to become a Defense Counsel, where she represented hundreds of Air Force members facing criminal and administrative proceedings throughout the United States. She has represented clients accused of rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, aggravated assault, theft, drug offenses, and a number of other types of charges. She is skilled in working with medical, forensic, and cross-cultural experts. She is experienced in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury. Her results speak for themselves, and her reputation earned her a rank as one of the top defense litigators in the world.

From 2014-2017 Steph and Abby had the opportunity to defend together one of the most complex courts-martial they had experienced to that point. Their client was facing a potential sentence of life in prison if convicted, but over the course of 2.5 years, they worked as a team flawlessly to research, plan, strategize, and litigate on behalf of their client. After tireless work, their client was fully acquitted of all charges and was able to retire from the Air Force after 20 years. It was then that they realized the immense benefit they could bring to clients working together.

Because of her performance in court, Stephanie was chosen by The Judge Advocate General to become a senior prosecutor, then-called a Senior Trial Counsel. She was one of the Air Force's elite prosecutors, whose sole job is to handle the most complex, high-profile courts-martial. She has prosecuted multi-defendant conspiracy, drug, physical and sexual assault, domestic violence, child pornography, child abuse, child sexual assault, and financial fraud cases, among others. She served as adjunct faculty at beginner and intermediate litigation courses and provided training to over 100 attorneys. She was also selected as #1 out of 535 speakers at the Air Force Squadron Officer School for her presentation and critical analysis of the military justice system.

Through her time as a prosecutor, she became intimately familiar with the military justice system. Stephanie decided to leave the Air Force and dedicate her legal practice 100% to defending those accused of crimes. She wanted to use her knowledge of how a prosecutor builds their case to her clients' advantage by attacking every aspect of litigation from investigation to trial. In February 2019, she started work as a Civilian Defense Counsel.

Defending servicemembers is Steph's absolute passion. She has had the opportunity to represent clients in every service, in every type of military justice action. She also helps veterans address errors and injustices in their records.

Stephanie lives in San Diego, CA with her husband and three children. She represents clients worldwide.

William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Juris Doctor, 2010

Abbigayle Hunter

Abby joined Kral Military Defense after almost 10 and a half years as an active duty officer in the Air Force JAG Corps. Abby spent her entire career in the Air Force working in military justice, litigating over 100 courts-martial and rising to become one of the Air Force's most experienced trial attorneys. She voluntarily separated from active duty in July 2022 at the rank of Major/O-4.

Abby discovered her love and talent for trial work as part of the mock trial team during her college years at Wake Forest University. After graduating cum laude from Wake Forest, Abby attended law school at the Loyola University Chicago. Abby spent approximately a year in private practice in Chicago, Illinois before commissioning as a JAG in the Air Force.

Abby met Steph during her first assignment at Travis Air Force Base, California, where they worked side-by-side every day and litigated a trial together for the first of multiple times during their respective careers in the Air Force. Abby took on several roles in military justice during her first assignment, including the Chief of Nonjudicial Punishment, Chief of Litigation, and Chief of Military Justice, gaining expertise in different areas of the military justice process. She also quickly became her leadership's go-to pick in the office to prosecute the toughest, most complex courts-martial, winning victories in sexual assault, drug, theft, and child pornography cases.

Abby was then competitively selected to serve as the Area Defense Counsel at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, where she was introduced to Danielle Espinosa, her defense paralegal. During this assignment, Abby honed her litigation skills, again winning victories for her clients in separation boards, nonjudicial punishments, and courts-martial. Abby's work ethic, passion for military justice, and talent in the courtroom, earned her the ranking as the #1 of 85 area defense counsel in the Air Force.

Abby next achieved her dream of being selected to serve as a senior prosecutor, entering the ranks of the Air Force's best and most skilled trial attorneys. Within a year, she earned designation as a special victim's unit prosecutor and dedicated the next four years traveling the world and serving as the lead prosecutor on the Air Force's most complex cases. She gained particular experience in victim-centric cases such as child pornography, sexual crimes against children, child abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence. Her expertise led to her being selected to serve as an instructor at various courses for attorneys at the Air Force JAG School, as well as courses for law enforcement agents at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). Through her work ethic and skill in the courtroom, she again achieved the top ranking in her field, earning the spot of #1 of 18 senior prosecutors. She capped her time on active duty as serving as one of the prosecutors in the Air Force's historic first court-martial of a general officer.

Abby brings an immense level of military justice expertise and experience to KMD. She has dedicated over a decade of her life to becoming a skilled advocate who thrives at helping military members navigate a system that is often overwhelming. One of her favorite parts of criminal defense work is helping military members through often stressful process, so they not only get the best legal outcome possible but also feel as though they have someone who cares about their situation there to help.

Loyola University Chicago
Juris Doctor, 2010