President nominates 1st female Air Force Academy superintendent

[UrbScotty]

Source: US Air Force

The president of the United States nominated Maj. Gen. Michelle Johnson for the appointment to the rank of lieutenant general and for assignment to serve as Air Force Academy's 19th superintendent.

If confirmed by the Senate, Johnson would become the first woman to hold the position.

Currently serving as NATO's deputy chief of staff for operations and intelligence, Johnson is a 1981 distinguished graduate from the Academy where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in operations research. She was the first female cadet wing commander and the first female Rhodes Scholar from the Academy.

Johnson played varsity basketball all four years while she attended the Academy: she is the second all-time leading scorer in Air Force women's basketball with 1,706 points. She was twice named an Academic All-American and was inducted into the Academic All-American Hall of Fame in 2007, making her the first woman from the Academy and one of only six graduates with that distinction. In addition, she was named the Academy's most outstanding scholar-athlete in 1991.

Read more: http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123338422

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Good news. The USAFA has run into a few problems in recent years, especially with sexual abuse. Hopefully she can do something about that.

[stevenleser]

1. I agree. This is a good move.

Hopefully she can do something about the in your face evangelism at the academy too.

[timdog44]

13. I wonder how

this evangelism has infiltrated the Air Force Academy? And it seems like I remember all kinds of scandals there. It does not seem to jibe. But then again maybe it does.

Any way a good appointment. She certainly seems well qualified.

[Babel_17]

2. Great news

Hopefully this makes crystal clear that ones fellow cadets are ones fellow cadets and nothing less.

[jsr]

3. Good move

[rhett o rick]

4. I hope to hell she is an atheist. If there is a god she is. nm

[Cha]

5. She sounds really accomplished! thanks Scotty

Johnson is a command pilot with more than 3,600 flight hours in C-141 Starlifters, KC-10 Extenders, C-17 Globemaster IIIs, C-5 Galaxy aircraft and KC-135 Stratotankers.

[iandhr]

6. Another step toward progress.

[Aristus]

7. She's certainly staggeringly well-qualified.

Good choice, Mr. President. I hope she's confirmed quickly...

[Skittles]

8. when I enlisted in USAF, women weren't allowed in the academies

congrats to Ms. Johnson

[sarge43]

12. When I enlisted, women officers were capped at O-5 (Lt Col/Cmdr)

When the academies were opened to women, many predictions that this would be the end of Western Civilization -- as usual.

ma'am.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. This will really b;ow the fundies heads in the Springs.

Woohoo! Damn,to good to be true,not. Way to go Mr. Obama,that shit hole needed a real shaking out. All those right wing appointees will be big time pissed. Now,maybe the Female Cadets get some justice and the cover ups stop.

[DeSwiss]

10. K&R

- This ought to piss-off the Dominionists......

[quakerboy]

11. Yeah, but is she in good with Focus on the Family?

I hear that's what matters most to a lot of folk at the Air Force Academy.