Jonathan Dailey graduated from Williams College with a BA in Political Science, with Honors, and he spent a year abroad during his junior year at Oxford University, Exeter College, where he boxed in the Oxford-Cambridge boxing match, earning an Oxford Blue. Mr. Dailey served as a student judge advocate in the Marine Corps after being commissioned in 1991.
During his Williams College tenure, he trained for two summers at Officers Candidate School, USMC. He entered the Washington College of Law, graduating cum laude, to become a judge advocate in the Marine Corps. During his summers in law school, he served at the Washington Navy Yard, Marine Corps Appellate Division, and was tasked with writing the first draft of the UCMJ Article prohibiting sexual harassment after the Tailhook episode in the Navy. During his second summer he served at the New RiverMarineCorps base, where he prosecuted and administratively discharged Marines accused of misconduct. He was honorably discharged in 1995 as a Captain.