Eleanor Magers Vuono attended Princeton University on an Army ROTC scholarship and graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1995. She clerked for the Hon. Albert V. Bryan, Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, then served on active duty as an Army Judge Advocate and Assistant to the Army General Counsel in the Honors Program. She was the senior staff attorney for the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces before launching a freelance writing practice where she drafted trial and appellate briefs for small firms and solo practitioners. From 2014-2018, Ms. Vuono was a legal advisor in the Department of Defense for the first comprehensive review of the Uniform Code of Military Justice in 30 years. Next, she was the Senior Legal Advisor to the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service where she provided advice on modernizing the Selective Service System and legislative proposals to register women for the draft.

Currently, Ms. Vuono works on military justice reforms in DoD. She also teaches as an adjunct at Georgetown University Law School, the Catholic University School of Law, and Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She is a founding member and past president of the Military Spouse JD Network, a bar association for military spouse attorneys.