agency head after the outgoing chief departed and until a new appointee’s confi rmation. Ms. Dickerson is a widely published author, penning articles for industry and national publications, including The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and Ladies’ Home Journal. The U.S. Supreme Court cited a study she directed, “Beyond Percentage Plans: The Challenge of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education,” in its 2005 decision on affi rmative action. She was named a Presidential Meritorious Executive in 2008. Ms. Dickerson earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Virginia and a Master of Arts from the Johns Hopkins University. She is a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Board of Trustees.
CURTIS B. ODOM (RET.)
Senior Executive Service, U.S. Coast Guard, Director of Civilian Human Resources, Diversity and Leadership
Curtis Odom oversees the Coast Guard’s Civilian Human Resources Offi ce, with 180 Diversity staff ,
Workforce Planning staff , and the Leadership and Professional Development staff . Mr. Odom retired from active duty with the Coast Guard at the rank of captain and has held assignments at the Coast Guard Headquarters, including Chief, Offi ce of Leadership and Diversity, Reserve and Training Directorate, and Ethnic Policy Adviser to the Commandant of the Coast Guard as a member of the diversity management staff . Mr. Odom also completed a ten-month fellowship with the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group before assuming command of the Coast Guard’s only Recruit Training Center, Training Center Cape May, NJ. 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. Mr. Odom is a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Board of Trustees. A graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, he earned a Bachelor of Science in government. He also has a
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Master of Business Administration from the Florida Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College.
JOHN BONAPART, JR.
Director, Installations and Mission Support, Headquarters, Air Mobility Command
Mr. John Bonapart, Jr., is responsible for Air Mobility Command (AMC) expeditionary combat support. He provides oversight to civil engineer activities, including readiness, emergency services, base development,
environmental, and housing programs as well as contracting activities, executing $4 billion in support contracts annually. The sum includes $2 billion in commercial airlift contracts and security activities that provide force protection and information as well as physical and personnel security programs for 77,000 military and civilian employees and 110,000 family members. Bonapart earned a bachelor’s in history and a secondary school teaching certifi cate at Fordham University. He was commissioned in 1975 from the Air Force ROTC program. While on duty, he held assignments in communications and air traffi c control, and he also served at the Secretariat Air Staff , Command and Joint levels. He commanded a communications squadron, support group, cadet group, and air base wing. He retired at the rank of colonel in 2005. Prior to assuming his current position, he was Associate Director, Directorate of Strategic Plans, Programs, Analyses, Assessments and Lessons Learned, Headquarters, Air Force Space Command.
TIMOTHY BRIDGES
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Headquarters, Air Force, Pentagon
Mr. Timothy Bridges is responsible for management, policy, and oversight of the $6 billion Air Force installation and facility programs. They include facility management, base closures, construction, family housing,
acquisition, maintenance, operation, repair, and disposal of real property. He was
commissioned in 1979 as a
distinguished graduate of the Air Force ROTC program at the Virginia Military Institute, earning a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. Since then, he has served in design, planning, contract management, and operations. His most recent assignment was as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Environment, Safety and Occupational Health. He served twice as a base civil engineer squadron commander and as an installation commander. He also served as an Air Force ROTC assistant professor and held various staff positions at the major command and Air Force levels in the readiness, environmental, and resources arenas. Mr. Bridges retired from active duty at the rank of colonel in 2006 and entered the Senior Executive Service.
GAIL FOREST
Director for Information Dominance Programs, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition
Ms. Gail Forest is responsible for command control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) program acquisition. She guides the development of budget submissions and
congressional testimony. Ms. Forest also provides guidance on combat
C4ISR systems and architectures to the Secretary of the Air Force, the Air Staff , the Offi ce of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff , and Congress. Ms. Forest began her career as a manufacturing engineer with Buick Motor Division, General Motors Corp. In 1982 she entered federal civil service as an engineer in the Maintenance Directorate at Air Force Logistics Command. Prior to her current assignment, she was director, Plans, and Programs, Air Force Research Laboratory, and was
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