U.S. ARMY WOMEN S FOUNDATION 9TH ANNUAL SUMMIT AND HALL OF FAME RECEPTION

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1 U.S. ARMY WOMEN S FOUNDATION 9TH ANNUAL SUMMIT AND HALL OF FAME RECEPTION Evolving Opportunities for Army Women: Equip - Empower - Engage 8 March 2017

2 HONORARY COMMITTEE United States Senate Senator John Cornyn Senator Tammy Duckworth Senator Michael Enzi Senator Joni Ernst Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Senator Dean Heller Senator Angus King Senator Joe Manchin Senator Lisa Murkowski Senator Patty Murray Senator Jack Reed Senator Jeanne Shaheen Senator Thom Tillis Senator Roger Wicker United States House of Representatives Representative Joyce Beatty Representative Don Beyer Representative Earl Blumenauer Representative Cheri Bustos Representative G.K. Butterfield Representative Katherine Clark Representative Mike Coffman Representative Barbara Comstock Representative John Conyers Jr. Representative Ryan Costello Representative Diana DeGette Representative Debbie Dingell Representative Lloyd Doggett Representative Tulsi Gabbard Representative John Garamendi Representative Kay Granger Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham Representative Richard Hudson Representative Lynn Jenkins Representative Hank Johnson Representative Walter B. Jones Representative Marcy Kaptur Representative Barbara Lee Representative David Loebsack Representative Martha McSally Representative Jerry McNerney Representative Donald Norcross Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton Representative Steve Pearce Representative Scott Peters Representative Chellie Pingree Representative Bruce Poliquin Representative Amata Radewagen Representative Martha Roby Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard Representative Bobby L. Rush Representative Adam Schiff Representative Austin Scott Representative John Shimkus Representative Jackie Speier Representative Chris Stewart Representative Niki Tsongas Representative Marc Veasey Representative Joe Wilson Representative Robert J. Wittman Representative Steve Womack Representative David Young Representative Lee Zeldin

3 SPONSORS Liberty Sponsor Prudential Financial, Inc Legacy Sponsor Sierra Nevada Corporation Summit Sponsor L3 Technologies, Inc. Freedom Sponsors AWF Board of Directors GE Aviation Pentagon Federal Credit Union Walmart Eagle Sponsors CALIBRE Systems University of Maryland University College Courage Sponsors Booz Allen Hamilton KBRwyle LMI Government Consulting Pritzker Military Foundation Raytheon Patriot Sponsors AIRBUS Army Nurse Corps Association Fluor Geico Gunning Group LLC Sig Sauer In-kind Sponsors American Military University Stars and Stripes

4 2017 ARMY WOMEN S FOUNDATION 9TH ANNUAL SUMMIT Evolving Opportunities for Army Women Equip - Empower - Engage Congressional Auditorium, Capitol Visitor Center PROGRAM OF EVENTS 12:00 p.m. Welcome BG Anne Macdonald, (Ret) USA, President of AWF Legacy Scholarship Presentation COL Alice Demarais, (Ret) USA, Board of Directors of AWF Keynote MG Hugh Van Roosen, Deputy G1, Department of the Army Introduction by Representative Chris Stewart 1:00 p.m. Networking Luncheon 2:00 p.m. Keynote LTG Patricia Horoho, (Ret) USA Introduction by CSM Donna Brock, (Ret) USA, Treasurer of AWF 2:30 p.m. Panel Army Experiences of Extraordinary Women Moderator: CSM Donna Brock, (Ret) USA, Treasurer AWF CSM Billie Jo Boersma, USA, Garrison Commander, Ft. Belvoir, VA BG Diana Holland, 76th Commandant, U.S. Corps of Cadets U.S. Military Academy, West Point SGT Elizabeth Marks, USA, Paralympian Amy McNutt Woltman, Vice President and Corporate Counsel, Prudential 3:30 p.m. Panel Opportunities in the Civilian Sector and How to Find Them Moderator: James Beamesderfer, Vice President of Veterans Initiatives, Prudential LTC Jennifer Jensen, (Ret) USA, Vice President, Business Development of SNC s Communication, Navigation and Surveillance / Air traffic Management (CNS/ATM) Business Area, Sierra Nevada Corporation BG Gary M Profit, Senior Director of Military Programs, Walmart COL Adam Rocke, Special Assistant to Chief of Staff of the Army and Director of Soldier for Life Program Kris Urbauer, Program Manager, Military Recruiting and JOLP, General Electric Company 4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks BG Anne Macdonald, (Ret) USA, President of AWF

5 2017 SUMMIT PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS BG ANNE MACDONALD, (RET) USA, PRESIDENT OF U.S. ARMY WOMEN S FOUNDATION graduated from West Point in 1980 in the first gender integrated class, and subsequently served over 30 years in the Army leading and building highly effective teams. BG Macdonald is a senior Army aviator qualified as an UH60 Blackhawk pilot, a paratrooper, and is air assault qualified. Key assignments in the Army include serving as the Deputy Director of Operations, Military Command Center, Joint Chiefs of Staff, The Pentagon; Deputy Commanding General, 7th Infantry Division and Fort Carson, Colorado later designated Division West, First Army and Fort Carson; and Chief of Staff, United States Army Reserve Command, Fort McPherson, Georgia. She holds a bachelor of science from the United States Military Academy and two masters degrees; one in System s Management from the University of Southern California and the other in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Air War College. Macdonald retired from active duty in 2011 as a Brigadier General with multiple awards and distinctions. She currently serves as an executive coach and seminar facilitator with True Growth Leadership. Additionally, Anne and her husband, John, volunteer to facilitate an annual West Point Ethics and Leadership Seminar for the faculty members of 45 High Schools in the DC Metro area. COL ALICE DEMARAIS, USA (RET) served for over 30 years as a military nurse in the Navy Nurse Corps and the Army Nurse Corps. A graduate of the University of Maryland School of Nursing, COL Demarais had assignments in Europe, Korea and the United States, to include Alaska. She held staff and leadership positions at all levels throughout her career. COL Demarais career culminated as the commander of the U.S. Army Medical Activity and Reynolds Army Community Hospital at Ft. Sill, OK. COL Demarais was selected for this position as one of the first non-physician brigade level commanders in the Army Medical Department. Following her retirement from active service, COL Demarais joined the TRICARE managed care support contractor, TriWest Healthcare Alliance, from 2002 to She now volunteers at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Phoenix and Minneapolis. COL Demarais holds masters degrees from Webster University in Health Facilities Management and from Weidner University in Burn, Emergency and Trauma Nursing. She is also a graduate of the U.S. Army War College. MAJOR GENERAL HUGH VAN ROOSEN, DEPUTY G1, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY is a graduate of the University of New York at Albany and the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He is currently serving as the Deputy Army G-1 at the Pentagon. His past assignments include numerous Infantry, Special Forces, and Civil Affairs positions. Notable assignments include: Civil Affairs Director for Special Operations Command Europe; Civil Affairs Brigade Commander; 353d Civil Affairs Command Commanding General; Chief of Staff Forces, United Nations Mission in Liberia; Deputy Commanding General for the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command; Senior Advisor to the United Nations on South Sudan; and, Director of the Institute for Military Support to Governance. His awards and decorations include the Combat Action Badge, Special Forces Tab, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit Medal, and Bronze Star Medal. LTG PATRICIA HOROHO, (RET) USA is the first female and first Nurse Corps Officer to hold the appointment to U.S. Army Surgeon General and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Command. LTG Horoho has held every level of leadership in Army Medicine. Lieutenant General Horoho s awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit (2 OLC), the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (6 OLC), Army Commendation Medal (3 OLC), Army Achievement Medal (1 OLC), Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal and various service and unit awards.

6 PANELS CSM DONNA BROCK, (RET) USA, TREASURER, U.S. ARMY WOMEN S FOUNDATION CSM Donna Brock served more than 35 years in the U.S. Army, all of it in Army medicine. A combat medic, she rose to the top of her career field in position and rank. She served as the Command Sergeant Major of U.S. Army Medical Command and also as the senior enlisted advisor to the Army Surgeon General. At the time of her retirement in 2015, she was the longest serving enlisted woman still on active duty in the Army. CSM Brock has served as an Air Ambulance Radio Operator, Ambulance Driver, Emergency Room NCO, Clinical NCOIC, Training NCO, and Operations NCO. She has served in every leadership position including Squad Leader, Platoon Sergeant, First Sergeant, and Command Sergeant Major. She has performed as a Company Clerk, Personnel Service NCO, Drill Sergeant, and Sergeants Major Course Instructor, Faculty Advisor, and Mentor at USASMA. She also served on the Sergeant Major of the Army s Board of Directors and as the senior enlisted female advisor and mentor. COMMAND SGT. MAJ. BILLIE JO BOERSMA has served in a variety of duty positions, from team leader to Command Sergeant Major. She also served as a drill sergeant and drill sergeant leader and was named the Army Drill Sergeant of the Year CSM Boersma s assignments include 504th Signal Company, Munster Depot, Germany; D, 440th Signal Battalion, Darmstadt, Germany; D, 86th Signal Battalion, Fort Huachuca, Ariz.; A, 327th Signal Battalion, Fort Bragg, N.C; A, 51st Signal Battalion, Fort Bragg; 586th NSC, 525 MI BDE, Fort Bragg; E, 1/61 Infantry Regiment, Fort Jackson, S.C.; U.S. Army Drill Sergeant School, Fort Jackson, S.C.; HQ, TRADOC, Fort Monroe, Va.; 101st Airborne (Air Assault) Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.; Joint Staff Support Center, Pentagon; Command Sergeant Major 3/1 STB and 3/1 IBCT and as the Soldier For Life SGM at HQDA. CSM Boersma s military education includes all NCOES courses; First Sergeant Course; Master Fitness Course; Airborne School; Drill Sergeant School; and the Battle Staff Noncommissioned Officers Course. She is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy, Class 58. BRIGADIER GENERAL DIANA M. HOLLAND is the 76th Commandant, U.S. Corps of Cadets U.S. Military Academy, West Point. Brigadier General Holland s military service began in Germany where she served as a vertical construction platoon leader in the 79th Engineer Combat Battalion (Heavy), and as a company executive officer and battalion assistant operations officer in the 94th Engineer Combat Battalion (Heavy). Following company command, BG Holland earned a Master of Arts degree at Duke University en route to a teaching assignment at the United States Military Academy. She then attended the Army Command and General Staff College and the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) where she earned a Master of Military Arts and Sciences degree. She was deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom 3 serving as a division plans officer and then as the operations officer in the 92nd Engineer Combat Battalion (Heavy). Upon return from Iraq, BG Holland served as a plans officer in the Operations Directorate, United States Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. She commanded the 92nd Engineer Battalion from July , and deployed with Task Force Diamond to eastern Afghanistan from ay 2010 to April After relinquishing command, BG Holland was a United States Army War College Fellow at Georgetown University. In 2012, BG Holland assumed command of the 130th Engineer Brigade at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. The following year, she deployed with the Brigade Headquarters to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan where the unit served as the Theater Engineer Brigade, Joint Task Force Sapper. The Brigade redeployed to Schofield Barracks in June 2014 and Brigadier General Holland relinquished command in July. During 2015, BG Holland served as executive officer to the Director of the Army Staff at the Pentagon. Most recently, BG Holland was assigned as the Deputy Commanding General for Support, 10th Mountain Division (LI) at Fort Drum, New York, and deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Freedom s Sentinel.

7 PANELS SERGEANT ELIZABETH MARKS is a combat medic and a Paralympic swimmer in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program who won four gold medals at the 2016 Invictus Games at Walt Disney World ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. She gave one of her gold medals to Invictus Games founder Prince Harry to deliver to members of the Papworth Hospital staff that saved Marks life after she traveled to London to compete in the inaugural Invictus Games in the fall of She sustained bilateral hip injuries in 2010 while serving in Iraq, and nearly died in London in 2014 from the respiratory infection that led to a medically induced coma that lasted nearly one month. Marks, 25, a native of Prescott Valley, Arizona, who joined the Army at age 17 is now stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. She punched her ticket to Rio de Janeiro with stellar performances at the 2016 U.S. Paralympic Swimming Team Trials June 30 through July 2 at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. She won the 100-meter breaststroke event there with a personal-best time of 1 minute, seconds only.01 seconds off the world record of 1:28.53 in her classification. AMY MCNUTT WOLTMAN is Vice President and Corporate Counsel at Prudential. She partners with business clients across the enterprise to structure and implement reinsurance transactions critical to Prudential s capital and risk management of individual life, group life and annuities business. Ms. Woltman joined Prudential in December Prior to joining Prudential, she served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Scottish Re, a life reinsurance company. At Scottish Re, Ms. Woltman primarily focused on reserve financing transactions, reinsurance negotiations, corporate governance, and dispute resolution. Before Scottish Re, she was at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, where she was an associate attorney in the capital markets group. Ms. Woltman is a veteran, having served for four years in the Army as a 98G, Voice Interceptor (Arabic), including a six-month deployment to Kosovo. She attained the rank of Sergeant before being honorably discharged in She currently serves as President of VETNET Prudential s business resource group focused on raising military veterans issues as they relate to the workplace and representing Prudential within the veteran community. Ms. Woltman received her B.A. in Chemistry and English from Williams College, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. JAMES BEAMESDERFER is a Vice President for Prudential s Veterans Initiatives. He is responsible for the company s internal veterans programs, which includes supporting Diversity and Inclusion activities, implementing the communications strategy and overseeing philanthropic activity in coordination with internal business partners. Prior to joining Prudential, James was a captain in the U.S. Army, serving six years in Infantry units. James has a bachelor s degree in mechanical engineering from The United States Military Academy at West Point and a master s degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix. LTC JENNIFER JENSEN, (RET) USA is the Vice President, Business Development of SNC s Communication, Navigation and Surveillance / Air traffic Management (CNS/ATM) Business Area. Jennifer joined Sierra Nevada Corporation in 2011 after retiring from the U.S. Army with 23 years as a former Senior Army Aviator and Acquisition Corps Officer. She was directly responsible for rapidly deploying real-time unmanned aircraft video directly into the hand of the Army Warfighters. She has experience in strategic planning, contracting and program management opening new markets for SNC. Jennifer holds a Master s in Business Administration and Finance from New Mexico State University. Life time of academic experience that includes a Bachelors of Aeronautical Science from Florida Institute of Technology; USAF Air War College; multiple civil and military fixed and rotary wing ratings to include instructor pilot.

8 PANELS BG GARY M. PROFIT, (RET) USA is currently Senior Director of Military Programs, Walmart, where he directs a synchronized enterprise strategy and complementary implementing programs to attract, recruit, hire, grow, develop, and retain talent from military community constituencies. BG Profit serves on the National Advisory Council of the Beck PRIDE Center for America s Wounded Veterans at Arkansas State University, the Executive Advisory Council of Mission: Readiness Military Leaders for Kids, and is a member of the Franklin Project at the Aspen Institute. After more than 31 years of U.S. Army service, BG Gary M Profit retired on February 28, His uniformed military career culminated with a capstone assignment as Deputy Chief, Army Reserve/Deputy Commander, U.S. Army Reserve Command for Management, Resources and Support. He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Eastern Michigan University, earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science in National Security and Strategic Studies from the College of Naval Warfare, Naval War College. BG Profit s military awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and several others. COLONEL ADAM ROCKE, USA is the Special Assistant to Chief of Staff of the Army and Director of Soldier for Life Program. Colonel Adam L. Rocke serves as a Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army and Director of the Soldier for Life Program. In this role he connects Army, governmental and community efforts to build relationships that facilitate successful reintegration of Soldiers, Retired Soldiers, Veterans, and their Families in order to keep them Army Strong and instill their values, ethos and leadership within communities. A career infantryman, COL Rocke has served in a series of strategic and operational assignments supporting operations in Central America, Iraq and Afghanistan. He served three tours during Operation Iraqi Freedom serving as an Operations Officer, Executive Officer and Infantry Stryker Battalion Commander. He also served on the Joint Staff and is a graduate of the National War College. KRIS URBAUER is the Program Manager, Military Recruiting and JOLP (Junior Officer Leadership Program) for the General Electric Company. She has been responsible for GE s veteran s initiatives in some form since June In this current role, she leads all military hiring for the company, manages the Junior Officer Leadership Program (JOLP), leads the Transition Assistance Workshop program as part of GE s sponsorship of the Chamber of Commerce Hiring our Heroes initiative, and acts as a liaison to the military and veteran community. She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY (86), an M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (96), and a Professional Engineer license from the State of Illinois. In her 10 years on active duty in the US Army, Kris served as a Construction Platoon Leader, Executive Officer of a Medium Girder Bridge Company, Company Commander of a Topographic Engineering Company, and as an Assistant Operations Officer (S3) for the 20th Engineer Brigade (Combat) (Airborne). She also served with the United Nations Protection Forces in Sarajevo, Bosnia in 1994 and spent her leave of absence from GE in at Ground Zero in NYC with the US Army Corps of Engineers. She is a Senior Parachutist and loved jumping out of perfectly good airplanes.

9 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS The U.S. Army Women s Foundation will award the following scholarships this year to Army women and their children. Children of Army Women Legacy Scholarship Recipients 4-Year College Brittany Brann, OR University of Oregon L3 Technologies, Inc. Dominique Charleston, GA Georgia State University Prudential Financial, Inc. Roni Fraser, TX University of North Texas Sierra Nevada Corporation Bobbi Miller, TX Texas A&M University Mackenzie Morris, VA Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Walmart Lauren Smith, UT Utah Valley University Andrew Johnson, MA Bridgewater State University Prudential Financial, Inc. Children of Army Women Legacy Scholarship Recipients Graduate Studies Monya Coleman, LA East Texas Baptist University Pentagon Federal Credit Union Megan Kelley, TN Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine Trayvon Foy, WA University of Washington School of Dentistry GE Aviation Tyler Todd, TN Tennessee State University Army Women Legacy Scholarship Recipients 4-Year College SPC Vanessa Anderson APO/AE University of Maryland University College Sierra Nevada Corporation SPC Royce Cook, TX University of Maryland University College UMUC Cadet Christina Dittmer, VA Christopher Newport University Booz Allen Hamilton SGT Lisa Ellis, TX University of Texas at El Paso Pentagon Federal Credit Union

10 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS SPC Chelsea Emmerich, FL NOVA Southeastern University AWF/Kinney SPC Lisa Perez, NC Brandman University Prudential Financial, Inc. Luisa Hall Valdez, AZ United States Sports Academy Walmart E4 Idamae Wallace, UT University of Utah E4 Lacey Sanchez, CA California State University of Bakersfield. Army Women Legacy Scholarship Recipients Certificate/ Community College E5 Judith DuBose, TX Rice University E4 Natasha Gibson, NY Nassau Community College Army Women Legacy Scholarship Recipients Graduate Studies Alessandra Carrillo, PA Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Sierra Nevada Corporation Bora Chang, TX Walden University Sierra Nevada Corporation Susan D Addio, VA Averett University L3 Technologies, Inc SGT Ashley Gorbulja, OH University of Akron Prudential Financial, Inc. E-5 Bernadette Greenwood, CA Univ. of Edinburgh College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine GE Aviation 2LT Katrina James, UT Utah State University E-4 Christine Jensen, ID George Washington University Prudential Financial, Inc. Adrienne Kambouris, MD University of Maryland School of Medicine Sierra Nevada Corporation 2LT Dakota Olson, OR University of Southern California CALIBRE Ashley Radke, GA Georgia State University CPT Emma Schiller, NY University of Maryland University College AWF/Hobby CW5 Phyllis Wilson, AL Excelsior College Prudential Financial, Inc.

11 2017 ARMY WOMEN S FOUNDATION HALL OF FAME RECEPTION Rayburn House Office Building Foyer Washington, DC PROGRAM OF EVENTS 4:30 p.m. Registration opens 5:00 p.m. Reception begins 5:30 p.m. Welcome CSM Cindy Pritchett, (Ret) USA, 1st Vice President of AWF 5:35 p.m. Keynote Speaker General Richard Cody, (Ret) USA Corporate Senior Vice President and Officer, L3 Communications 5:45 p.m Hall of Fame Inductees The Honorable Coral Wong Pietsch Chief Warrant Officer Five Phyllis Wilson, USAR U.S. Army Olympians and Paralympians Accepted by Shawn Cheshire, COL Patty Collins, (Ret) USA, Kari Miller, and SGT Elizabeth Marks Command Sergeant Major Betty Benson, (Ret) USA Posthumously The Pioneer Women of Cultural Support Teams 1-7 6:15 p.m Special Awardees Gayle Tzemach Lemmon The Honorable Leon Panetta General Martin Dempsey, (Ret) USA ADM Eric Olson, (Ret) USN 6:30 p.m. Reception program concludes 7:00 p.m. Reception ends

12 2017 HALL OF FAME RECEPTION PARTICIPANTS GENERAL RICHARD A. CODY, (RET) USA GEN Richard A. Cody, USA, (Ret) is a Corporate Senior Vice President and Officer for L-3 Communications Corporation. During his 36+ years of service, General Cody served in six of the Army s combat divisions, the 25th Infantry Division, the 2nd Infantry Division, the 24th Infantry Division (MECH), the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), the 1st Cavalry Division and the 4th Infantry Division (MECH). He served as the 31st Vice Chief of Staff, Army from June 2004 to August He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and the Command and General Staff College and the Army War College. He is a master Army Aviator, rated in over 19 Helicopters and has over 5000 hours of flight time. He is the Chairman of the Board and National Chairman for Homes for Our Troops, Chairman, National Trust for Wounded Warriors, and Board Trustee of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. CSM CINDY PRITCHETT, (RET) USA, 1ST VICE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. ARMY WOMEN S FOUNDATION CSM Cynthia A. Pritchett retired from the U.S. Army in 2010 after over 36 years of service. She is the first Vice President of the Army Women s Foundation. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Women in Military Service for America Memorial (WIMSA), JPMorgan Chase Military and Veterans Affairs Advisory Council, Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-Wise) Advisory Council and the St. Stephen Catholic School Board HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES THE HONORABLE (BRIGADIER GENERAL, RETIRED) CORAL WONG PIETSCH Judge Coral Wong Pietsch was appointed to the federal bench in June 2012 by President Barack Obama and serves as a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Judge Pietsch has a distinguished career in public service, both in the military and as a civilian. She was commissioned in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General s Corps and served six years on active duty. Judge Pietsch continued her service in the U.S. Army Reserve and rose to the rank of Brigadier General. She became the first woman to be promoted in the rank of Brigadier General in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General s Corps and the first woman of Asian ancestry to be promoted to Brigadier General in the Army. In her military career, Judge Pietsch participated in numerous exercises and deployments throughout the Asia Pacific Region as well as a 12-month deployment to Iraq as a Department of Defense civilian. Judge Pietsch s academic degrees include a bachelor of arts, master of arts, and a juris doctor degree. She was also a Senior Executive Fellow at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, is a graduate of the Defense Leadership and Management Program, and a graduate of the Army War College. Judge Pietsch is married to James H. Pietsch, who is a Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law and is also a veteran. CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER FIVE PHYLLIS WILSON, USAR CW5 Wilson joined the Army as a private in 1981 as a Military Intelligence German Linguist Voice Intercept Operator. During more than 35 years of active and reserve service, she has served at all echelons from tactical to strategic. She served at U.S. Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, FL as an intelligence analyst in support of Information Operations focused on the War on Terrorism and mobilized and deployed twice to Iraq in support of a highly specialized Joint Special Operations Task Force. She served as the 5th Command Chief Warrant Officer for the United States Army Reserve and was part of the Leadership Team responsible for more than 200,000 Soldiers and Army Civilians with an annual operating budget of 8 Billion dollars. She represented and advised the Chief of the Army Reserve/ Commanding General, U.S. Army Reserve Command, served on the Army Senior Warrant Officer

13 2017 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES Council and was responsible for coordinating policy and statutory changes to support the advancement of initiatives for the total Army Warrant Officer Cohort to include Warrant Officer In 2016, she joined the Warrant Officer Career College, Fort Rucker, Alabama as the Warrant Officer Senior Service Education Course Director. Chief Wilson s military decorations and awards include the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medals, the Joint Service Commendation & Achievement Medals, Army Commendation Medals, the Army Achievement Medal, the Iraq Campaign Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary & Service Medals and the Army Parachutist Badge. She is the proud parent of eight children, three of whom are combat veterans and one who is serving and currently deployed in Kuwait. U.S. ARMY OLYMPIANS AND PARALYMPIANS SHAWN CHESHIRE, Cycling COL PATRICIA COLLINS, (RET) USA, Paratriathlete SGT ELIZABETH MARKS, Paraswimmer KARI MILLER, Sitting Volleyball SHAWN MORELLI, Cycling JENNIFER SCHUBLE, Cycling MELISSA STOCKWELL, Paratriathlete ACCEPTED BY: SHAWN CHESHIRE served in the U.S. Army as a helicopter armament systems mechanic. Following her years in the service, Shawn became an EMT-Paramedic fueling her passion to care for others. In 2009, while working on an ambulance, she sustained a traumatic brain injury which resulted in total loss of vision. When Shawn was introduced to para sports, it was through sports she confronted her blindness and her competitive spirit ignited. For the last four years, Shawn has raced with the US National Paralympic Cycling Team in 16 domestic and 20 international races, including representing the USA at the Paralympic Games in Rio Shawn is a 7 time US National Champion. COL PATRICIA COLLINS, (RET) USA retired from the U.S. Army after 24 years of active duty, having spent over seven years assigned to Special Mission Units within the Joint Special Operations Command. She deployed to the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. During her service, she led from the tactical company level through the directorate level of the Joint Staff. She has experience in a multitude of areas from information technology, knowledge management, strategic leadership and organizational change. A pioneer in her field, she was one of a small number of women to serve in Special Operations and was the first woman in the DOD to complete the Military Free Fall Jumpmaster Course. In 2007, Patty elected to amputate her left leg below the knee in an effort to regain more mobility after suffering significant injuries from a 2006 accident while bicycling. She rehabilitated while continuing to serve in her unit of assignment, returning to running and parachuting within 6 months of her surgery. She remained an active duty service member for another 9 years, deploying to Afghanistan and commanding a tactical communications Battalion as an amputee with no physical limitations. Upon her retirement from service, Patty was a member of the 2016 U.S. Paralympic Team representing the U.S. in the sport of Triathlon in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. SERGEANT ELIZABETH MARKS is a combat medic and a Paralympic swimmer in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program who won four gold medals at the 2016 Invictus Games at Walt Disney World ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. She gave one of her gold medals to Invictus Games founder Prince Harry to deliver to members of the Papworth Hospital staff that saved Marks life after she traveled to London to compete in the inaugural Invictus Games in the fall of She sustained bilateral hip injuries in 2010 while serving in Iraq, and nearly died in London in 2014

14 2017 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES from the respiratory infection that led to a medically induced coma that lasted nearly one month. Marks, 25, a native of Prescott Valley, Arizona, who joined the Army at age 17 is now stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. She punched her ticket to Rio de Janeiro with stellar performances at the 2016 U.S. Paralympic Swimming Team Trials June 30 through July 2 at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. She won the 100-meter breaststroke event there with a personal-best time of 1 minute, seconds only.01 seconds off the world record of 1:28.53 in her classification. KARI MILLER was serving in active military duty, getting ready for officer training school, when a drunk driver smashed into the car she was traveling in. Kari lost both her legs in the crash; one amputated above the knee, one below. As she recovered, Miller first competed in wheelchair basketball, then discovering sitting volleyball. Miller joined the U.S. Paralympics women s sitting volleyball national team in 2006, and two years later helped the team earn a silver medal in the Beijing games followed by another silver medal in London in In Rio in 2016, the team took gold. Today, in addition to training with the sitting volleyball team, Kari works with the paralympic military program at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. She teaches wounded soldiers how to use sports in their recovery, works with the families of the soldiers in adapting, and coaches at the warrior games. You can see the hope come back, Miller said. It s easy for a doctor to say it, but for someone to actually see it in someone like me, it makes a difference. COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR BETTY BENSON, (RET) USA Posthumously Command Sergeant Major (CSM) Betty Benson began her military career in February, 1949 at Ft. Lee, Virginia. Her many career assignments include Ft. Devens, Mass., the U. S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, N.H., Ft. Ord, CA, Ft. Myer, Va. and the U. S. Army Recruiting Command in Albany, N.Y. and Des Moines, Iowa. Her overseas assignments included Camp Zama, Japan, The Republic of Vietnam where she was a member of the advanced party to activate the first Women s Army Corps (WAC) Detachment in that country. She also served in Hanau, Germany and Camp Darby, Italy where she was the Post Sergeant Major. CSM Benson attended the U. S. Army first Sergeants Major Academy class at Ft. Bliss, Texas. Her last duty assignment was at Ft. McClellan, Ala. as the senior enlisted soldier for the Second Basic Training Battalion, U. S. Army MP School and Training Center, and she remained until her 30-year mandatory retirement on 30 June CSM Benson received many awards and decorations during her time in the Army including the Vietnam Service Medal with 4 Battle Stars, the Bronze Star Medal and the Legion of Merit. While on active duty and after her retirement Betty served as a member of the Women s Army Corps (WAC) Foundation Board where she was very active in helping get the WAC Museum built at Ft. McClellan. THE PIONEER WOMEN OF CULTURAL SUPPORT TEAMS 1-7 Cultural Support Teams were a pioneering program that began in 2009/2010 and were comprised of female Soldiers from the Army, Guard and Reserve, Air Force, and Navy. These female Soldiers served on the front lines supporting Rangers, SEALS, and other special operations combat forces during the Afghan war. The CSTs underwent extreme physical training as well as cultural support training focused on basic human behavior, Islamic and Afghan cultures, women and their role in Afghanistan, and tribalism. The primary task of CSTs was to engage the female population in an objective area when such contact may be deemed culturally inappropriate if performed by a male service member. CSTs directly supported activities ranging from medical civic-action programs, searches and seizures, humanitarian assistance and civil-military operations. The foundation of the Cultural Support Training Course was built upon providing an understanding of human behavior, an appreciation for Islamic and Afghan culture, and the role and history of women in Afghanistan.

15 SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDS GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of the New York Times best-sellers Ashley s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield and The Dressmaker of Khair Khana. She appears regularly on broadcast outlets including PBS NewsHour, CNN and MSNBC to discuss foreign policy and national security issues and serves as a contributor to Atlantic Media s Defense One. In 2004, she left the ABC News Political Unit to earn her MBA at Harvard, where she began writing about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict zones, including Afghanistan. Ashley s War was named to the 2016 U.S. Special Operations Command Commander s Reading List. You can follow her and find the TED Talks she has given on Ashley s War and Dressmaker at TED.com. THE HONORABLE LEON PANETTA served as Secretary of Defense from 2011 to Throughout his tenure as Secretary of Defense, he helped women in the military by removing barriers such as lifting the military ban of women in combat and working with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to certify that the military was prepared to repeal Don t Ask, Don t Tell. Prior to becoming the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Panetta served as the Director of the CIA from 2009 to Before joining CIA, he spent 10 years co-directing with his wife, Sylvia, the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy. In March 2006, he was chosen as a member of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan committee established at the urging of Congress to conduct an independent assessment of the war in Iraq. From July 1994 to January 1997, Mr. Panetta served as Chief of Staff to President William Clinton. Prior to that, he was Director of the Office of Management and Budget, a position that built on his years of work on the House Budget Committee. Mr. Panetta represented California s 16th (now 17th) Congressional District from 1977 to 1993, rising to House Budget Committee chairman during his final four years in Congress. He served as an Army intelligence officer from 1964 to 1966 and received the Army Commendation Medal. GENERAL MARTIN DEMPSEY, (RET) USA, served as the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from In January of 2013, GEN Dempsey sent a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on behalf of the Joint Chiefs stating the time has come to rescind the direct combat exclusion rule for women to eliminate all unnecessary gender-based barriers to service. Because of this recommendation, Secretary Panetta lifted the military s official ban on women in combat, opening up hundreds of thousands of front-line jobs to women. Before retiring in September of 2015, GEN Dempsey witnessed the first female graduates from Ranger School. During his 41 years in the Army, GEN Dempsey commanded a Cavalry Troop, a Tank Battalion, a Cavalry Regiment, a Tank Division, and United States Central Command where he was responsible for securing U.S. interests in the Middle East and South Asia. He served in both Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom accumulating 42 months in combat. GEN Dempsey served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 2011 and then as the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ADMIRAL ERIC OLSON, (RET) USN authorized the establishment of Cultural Support Teams in 2009/2010 during the war in Afghanistan. The CSTs were teams of women given special military training and equipment and attached to frontline male combat units. ADM Olson recognized the need of female Soldiers to communicate with local women in order to gathering intelligence tips. ADM Olson graduated from the Naval Academy in 1973 and completed SEAL training in For the next two decades, he served in a variety of military assignments, many of them overseas, until 1994 when he became commander of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, an American counter-terrorism unit. ADM Olson was promoted again in 1999 when he assumed command of Naval Special Warfare Command in Coronado, California. He last served as the 8th Commander U.S. Special Operation Command before retiring in 2011.

16 ABOUT THE U.S. ARMY WOMEN S FOUNDATION As our nation participates in Women s History Month in March, the U.S. Army Women s Foundation commemorates and celebrates the service, accomplishments, and sacrifices of Army women by hosting an annual Summit and Hall of Fame Reception. These events place the AWF at the forefront of the issues and opportunities impacting U.S. Army women. Event participants interact and partner with an elite cadre of senior military leaders, corporate leaders, opinion leaders, and policy makers. The U.S. Army Women s Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The mission of the U.S. Army Women s Foundation is to promote public interest in the Army and recognize and honor the invaluable service of Army women through various programs, research, scholarships, and grants. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President - BG (Ret) Anne Macdonald 1st Vice President - CSM (Ret) Cindy Pritchett 2nd Vice President - LTC (Ret) Mary Coleman Spring Treasurer - CSM (Ret) Donna Brock Secretary - SGM (Ret) Diana Huron BOARD OF DIRECTORS COL (Ret) Jayne Carson COL (Ret) Alice L.O K. Demarais SGM (Ret) Andrea Farmer COL (Ret) Walt Gunning LTC (Ret) Jenelle B. Roberts LTC (Ret) Isabelle Slifer ADVISORY BOARD MG (Ret) Donna Barbisch MG (Ret) Jan Edmunds BG (Ret) Evelyn P. Foote LTC (Ret) Michelle Greene Ms. Dawn Halfaker Ms. Gail Howell COL (Ret) Janet Southby The Honorable Caryn A. Wagner EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Peggy Trossen CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER April Booth U.S. ARMY WOMEN S FOUNDATION P.O. BOX 5030, Fort Lee, Virginia