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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 .
Women worked as nurses for the Union Navy during the American Civil War.In 1890, Ann Bradford Stokes, who during the American Civil War had worked as a nurse on the navy hospital ship USS Red Rover, where she assisted Sisters of the Holy Cross, was granted a pension of $12 a month, making her the first American woman to receive a pension for her own service in the Navy.
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From 1976 until March 1979, she served as the U.S. Navy's Pay and Allowance Functional Manager at the Bureau of Naval Personnel (PERS-3) in Washington, D.C. She was selected to be one of the first women officers in Surface Warfare and in 1979 graduated number one in her class at the Surface Warfare Officer Basic Course in Newport, Rhode Island.
Amy N. Bauernschmidt is a United States Navy officer. She is the first woman to serve as the executive officer and then as the commanding officer of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. Bauernschmidt assumed command of USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) on 19 August 2021.
She was the first African-American woman to command a United States Navy ship, [3] USS Rushmore, [4] and the first to achieve two- and three-star rank. In 2006, she was selected for the rank of rear admiral (lower half), [ 5 ] making her the first admiral selected from the United States Naval Academy class of 1982 and the first female graduate ...
It includes United States Navy admirals that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Female admirals of the United States Navy" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total.
Susan Ahn – first female gunnery officer and Asian-American woman to join the U.S. Navy, sister of actor and fellow sailor Ralph Ahn; Eddie Albert – Oscar-nominated actor (Roman Holiday) Arthur Leigh Allen – prime suspect in the Zodiac Killer case; Kirk Alyn – first actor to play Superman in live-action