Foundation for Women Warriors
Ericka Fowlkes enlisted in the Maryland National Guard on Oct. 19, 1989. During her 12 years of enlisted service she completed two overseas missions in Germany and in Panama. In 2001, Fowlkes earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from […]
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Born and raised in Ipswich, England with an English mother and American father, Nicola Hall was a natural born Athlete with a sense of dual nationality. Her father was an Olympic athlete – and at just 10 years old, she started competition track. By the age […]
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Maj. Gen. Leavitt entered the Air Force in 1992 after earning her bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas and her master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University. She earned […]
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Jeanine McIntosh Menze was born in Kingston, Jamaica and attended Vaz Preparatory School. Her family moved to Canada before relocating to South Florida, where she graduated from Miami Killian High School in May 1997 and […]
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Winifred Quick Collins was born Winifred Mary Redden, in Great Falls, Montana, United States on November 26, 2011. She was the third child of four of Daniel A. Redden and Mary Winifred Redden (maiden name […]
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Nicole Victoria Aunapu Mann was born on June 27, 1977 to Howard and Victoria Aunapu and grew up in Penngrove, California. In 1995, she graduated from Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park, California. After […]
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Leslie F. Keene graduated from Auburn University in 1970 with a degree in Aerospace Engineering and had participated in Auburn’s ROTC program, and in 1971, she entered the Air Force. She served as a flight […]
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La’Shanda R. Holmes is a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard and the first African-American female helicopter pilot for the Coast Guard. She grew up in the foster care system and put herself through […]
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Patricia Ann Tracey was born on November 30, 1950 in The Bronx, New York. She graduated from the Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School in 1966 and from The College of New Rochelle with […]
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Shannon M. Kent was born on May 11, 1985 in Oswego, New York, to Colonel Stephen Smith, a high-ranking police officer in the New York State Police and Mary Plover-Smith, an elementary school teacher. Shannon […]
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