Brett Kirwan

Brett T. Kirwan (born March 17, 1982) is a '-winning United States Navy Lieutenant with the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Naval career
As an ensign in the United States Naval Reserve in July 2005 Kirwan won the Rear Admiral Donald M. Showers Award, an award presented six times annually at the Navy Marine Corps Intelligence Training Center (NMITC) in Virginia.
Education
A native of Avon Lake, Ohio, he graduated from St. Edward's High School (in Lakewood, Ohio) as salutatorian, and from Washington & Lee University (W&LU) in 2003 with a double major - Politics/East Asian Studies. Kirwan belonged to the College Republicans and was on a committee that invited conservative activists, including Jonah Goldberg (National Review Online), to the university's campus for speaking engagements.
==Jeopardy!==
He won two matches and lost the third to Suzanne Cappozzo, despite having $17,800 at the end of the third match's Double Jeopardy, compared to Cappozzo's $7,600 and Tim Wilson's $13,600, respectively (see Jeopardy! Archive site) as he did not respond correctly in Final Jeopardy!, although he could have won had he wagered less than $2600. He came in third by a margin of two dollars, with a score of $8399, compared to Wilson's $8401. His total Jeopardy! cash winnings were $36,600 ($35,600 in winning episodes, plus the $1,000 3rd place consolation prize.)
Writings
Kirwan authored a controversial editorial in a Washington and Lee University's campus-based paper. Kirwan's commentary, "Sweatshops Make Cents", in which he argued that sweatshops are “an important step in a nation’s development”, which provoked exclusively negative responses from the W&LU community, including Dr James F. Casey, an Assistant Professor of Economics. Others who responded quoted the Nobel Prize-winning economist, Dr Amartya Sen. His opponents also cited such economists as Peter Hess, Clark Ross and Nobel Prize winner Theodore Schultz in refuting Kirwan’s claims.

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