Virginia. JIMMY SMITH
NAVAL SEA SYSTEMS COMMAND
Director, Above Water Sensors, Program Executive Office
Integrated Warfare Systems
Jimmy Smith has served in his cur- rent position since 2010. Other positions he has held include, dep- uty executive director for Undersea Technology, 2007 to 2010; director for Submarines, director for Strategic Systems
programs, and deputy assistant secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding Programs), 2005 to 2007; deputy program manager, Ohio Class Guided Missile Conversion program, Program Executive Office- Submarines, 2004 to 2005; and construc- tion manager, Virginia Class Submarine Program, 2002 to 2004. Smith holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engi- neering from Tuskegee University; mas- ter's degrees in business management, environmental engineering and marine engineering; plus executive leadership certificates from Cornell University.
PENTAGON FORCE PROTECTION AGENCY
JONATHAN COFER Principal Deputy Director
As principal deputy director of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, Jona- than Cofer is responsible for protecting and safeguarding the occupants, visitors and infrastructure of the Pentagon and Department of Defense facilities within the National Capital Region. Cofer served as deputy director for operations and plans with the Joint Staff, where he advised two joint staff chairmen on anti- terrorism and force protection matters. He was heavily involved in developing U.S. Central Command’s response to the Downing Report for the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia and Defense Department's response to the Cole Commission’s findings regarding the USS Cole attack in Yemen. Cofer served more than 30 years as a military police officer in the U.S Army, from which he retired in 2002 as a brigadier general.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. COAST GUARD TERRI DICKERSON Coast Guard Director, Office of Civil Rights
Terri Dickerson is the Coast Guard director, Office of Civil Rights. She was appointed a member of the Senior Executive Service in 2000. From 2000 to 2006, she was second in charge at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She also served as associate administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Small Disadvantaged Business (1998 to 2000). She served as executive director and CEO for the nationwide American Women in Radio and Television (1993 to 1998). She earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of Virginia and a master of arts degree from the Johns Hopkins University. She has served on many boards of directors and is a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Board of Trustees and the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute’s board of advisers.
CURTIS B. ODOM
Director of Personnel Management Coast Guard Headquarters
Curt Odom assumed the duties of the Coast Guard’s director of personnel management on March 16, 2009. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service as deputy on April 1, 2007. Odom is responsible for the direction, management, planning, coordination and
administration of the Coast Guard’s hu- man resource programs for 49,000 mili- tary and civilian personnel. He oversees the Coast Guard’s Civilian Personnel Office and the Military Personnel Policy Office. He leads a staff of over 200 in the Personnel Management Director- ate. He has had various assignments including serving as an executive officer, Coast Guard Training Center and Coast Guard Support Center. His Coast Guard Headquarters assignments include chief, Office of Leadership and Diversity, Re- serve and Training Directorate and ethnic policy advisor to the commandant of the Coast Guard as a member of the diversity management staff. Odom completed a ten-month fellowship with the Chief of Naval Operations before assuming com- mand of the Coast Guard’s only Recruit Training Center, Training Center. With a staff of over 500 military and civilian personnel, Training Center Cape May graduates approximately 5,000 military members each year that are assigned to Coast Guard units all over the world. Odom is a graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy where he earned a bachelor of science degree in govern- ment. He also has a master of business administration degree from the Florida Institute of Technology and a master of arts degree in national security and strate- gic studies from the Naval War College. He retired from active duty with the Coast Guard at the rank of captain.
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