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She received her fourth star as the third woman to lead a combatant command, with the promotion ceremony held on 18 October 2021. Her four-star rank was pinned by the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General James C. McConville and her husband, Lieutenant General James M. Richardson. [27] [28]
This is a list of female United States military generals and flag officers, that are either currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, or are retired.They are listed under their respective service branches, which make up the Department of Defense, with the exception of the Coast Guard, which is part of Homeland Security.
Ann Elizabeth Dunwoody (born 14 January 1953) [2] [3] is a retired general of the United States Army.She was the first woman in United States military and uniformed service history to achieve a four-star officer rank, receiving her fourth star on 14 November 2008.
General Arthur J. Lichte, who had retired from the Air Force as a four-star general on 1 January 2010, received a letter of reprimand from the secretary of the Air Force for sexually assaulting a subordinate female officer on multiple occasions, over six years after his retirement date. [144]
Jacqueline Van Ovost, commander of the U.S. Transportation Command and one of only around a dozen women to hold the rank of four-star general, retired after more than three decades in the military.
After commissioning into the US Air Force, she attended Undergraduate Pilot Training (1989) followed by U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (1994). [4] Van Ovost holds master's degrees from California State University, Fresno in mechanical engineering (1996), from Air Command and Staff College in military arts and sciences (1999), and from Air War ...
four-star general. The rank of general (or full general, or four-star general) is the highest rank normally achievable in the United States Army. It ranks above lieutenant general (three-star general) and below general of the Army (five-star general). There have been 260 four-star generals in the history of the U.S. Army.
In 2014 Robinson was chosen to be commander of the Pacific Air Forces in Hawaii, making her the first United States female four-star commander of combat forces. [6] [7] On May 13, 2016, she became the commanding general of United States Northern Command and was the first woman to command a unified combatant command. [4]