Top Black Offi cers in the U.S. Military
ADM. (RET.) MICHELLE HOWARD Adm. Michelle Howard last served as the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe while she concurrently served as the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Africa and the commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples. She previously served as the 38th Vice Chief of Naval Operations. She assumed her last assignment on June 7, 2016. Adm. Howard graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1982. While serving on an
initial sea tour, she received the Secretary of the Navy/Navy League Captain Winifred Collins Award in May 1987. This award is given to one woman offi cer a year for outstanding leadership. In 1990 she served in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm and assumed duties as fi rst lieutenant on board the USS Flint in 1992. In 1996 she became the executive offi cer of USS Tortuga and deployed to the Adriatic in support of Operation Joint Endeavor, a peacekeeping eff ort in the former Republic of Yugoslavia. Sixty days after returning from the Mediterranean deployment, Tortuga departed on a West African training cruise, where the ship’s sailors, with embarked Marines and a U.S. Coast Guard detachment, operated with the naval services of seven African nations. She was the fi rst Black woman to command a ship—the amphibious dock landing ship Rushmore in 1999—and went on to command Amphibious Squadron 7 and later Expeditionary Strike Group 2. Deploying with Expeditionary Strike Group 5, operations included tsunami relief eff orts in Indonesia. In July 2014 Howard became the Navy’s fi rst female four-star. Her shore assignments include service as the 38th Vice Chief of Naval Operations.
VICE ADM. JAMES CRAWFORD III Judge Advocate General, Judge Advocate General’s Corps
Vice Adm. James Crawford became the 43rd Judge Advocate General of the Navy in June 2015. As judge advocate general, Crawford is the principal military legal counsel to the Secretary of the Navy and Chief of Naval
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Operations. He serves as the Department of Defense representative for Ocean Policy Aff airs, and he leads the 2,300 attorneys, enlisted legal men, and civilian employees of the Navy JAG Corps community. Before his appointment to fl ag rank, he served as special counsel to the chief of naval operations; as the senior staff judge advocate for the commander, U.S. Pacifi c Command; and as the fl eet judge advocate for U.S. Seventh Fleet. He also served at Navy Personnel Command; the Offi ce of the Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ; the Naval War College; commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; the Naval Justice School; and Cruiser-Destroyer Group Eight. Crawford graduated from Belmont Abbey College and the University of North Carolina, School of Law. From 2007 to 2011 he served as legal counsel to the chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff . From 2011 to 2012 he was the commander, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Rule of Law Field Support Mission/Rule of Law Field Force–Afghanistan. Before his appointment to fl ag rank, he was the special counsel to the chief of naval operations; the senior staff judge advocate for the commander, U.S. Pacifi c Command; and the fl eet judge advocate for U.S. 7th Fleet. In command, he served as the commanding offi cer, Region Legal Service Offi ce Southeast.
VICE ADM. KEVIN SCOTT Vice Director J7, Joint Force Development, Joint Staff
Vice Rear Adm. Kevin Scott is Vice Director J7 for Joint Force Development on the Joint Staff . A native of Portsmouth, VA, and New York City, Scott was designated a naval aviator in 1984. Under his command, Helicopter Mine Counter Measures Squadron 14 was awarded the 2001 Commander Naval Air Force Atlantic
Fleet Battle “E” Effi ciency Award. He served the Mine Countermeasures Squadron One as commodore and was a commander of the Expeditionary Strike Group 2. Other assignments include HM-14 legal offi cer, aircraft division offi cer, and maintenance test pilot (1985–1987); fl ight deck offi cer aboard USS Inchon; and HM-14 admin offi cer, operations offi cer and detachment offi cer in charge (1994–1996). Ashore, he was an air combat placement offi cer, Bureau of Naval Personnel; wing operations offi cer, Commander Tactical Wing Atlantic; military aide to the vice president (1997–1999); current operations chief and division chief, Joint Forces Command; director of aviation offi cer, Distribution Division, Naval Personnel Command; and acting director, Expeditionary Warfare Division, Washington, DC. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buff alo, Naval Postgraduate School, Naval War College, and the Joint
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