46 Female generals of the United States Army

Clara Leach Adams-Ender is a retired US Army officer who was Chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps from September 1987 to August 1991. She was the first woman to receive her master's degree in military arts and sciences from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. She is also the first African-American nurse corps officer to graduate from the United States Army War College. When she retired, in 1993, she was serving as commanding officer of Fort Belvoir.

Marcia Carol Martin Anderson was the first African-American woman to become a major general in the United States Army Reserve. The first African-American woman to become an active duty major general is Nadja West.

Mildred Inez C. Bailey was a United States Army officer, who served as the eighth director of the Women's Army Corps from August 1971 until July 1975 with the rank of Brigadier General. She was the third woman in Army to reach the rank of general.

Lieutenant General Gwendolyn Bingham is an officer in the United States Army and is the current Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management. Bingham previously served as the Commander of the TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) headquartered at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan and as the Commanding General, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. She was the 51st Quartermaster General of the United States Army and Commandant of the U.S. Army Quartermaster School at Fort Lee, Virginia - the first female officer to hold these positions.

Margaret W. Burcham is a retired American brigadier general. She was the first female brigadier general in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Rosetta Y. Burke was the first female Assistant Adjutant General of New York State and of the Army National Guard.

Sherian Grace Cadoria is a retired United States Army officer. She became the first African-American woman to achieve General rank in the Army in 1985. She was the highest ranking black woman in the military at the time of her retirement in 1990 with the rank of Brigadier General. She is a graduate of Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and holds a Master of Arts degree in Social Work from the University of Oklahoma. Initially in the Women's Army Corps, she transferred to the Military Police Corps in the 1970s.

Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Clarke was a United States Army officer who served as the director of the Women's Army Corps. She was the first woman to attain the rank of major general in the U.S. Army. Clarke served in the U.S. Army for 36 years, the longest service of any woman for a U.S. Army career. Norwich University awarded her an Honorary Doctorate in military science in 1978. Clarke retired in 1981 and was appointed to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.

Rhonda L. Cornum is a former United States Army officer and the Director of Health Strategy for TechWerks. She is a surgeon, board-certified in urology having earned a doctorate in biochemistry and nutrition from Cornell University. Cornum worked at Letterman Army Institute of Research at the Presidio of San Francisco and entered the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland in 1982. She retired in 2012 as a U.S. Army brigadier general, the Director of Comprehensive Soldier Fitness in the Army Staff G-3/5/7 division.

Jody J. Daniels is a lieutenant general (LTG) in the United States Army, who serves as the 34th Chief of Army Reserve, and the 9th Commanding General, U.S. Army Reserve Command. She earned her commission through Army Reserve Officers Training Corps in 1983. In July 2020, Daniels was confirmed to succeed LTG Charles D. Luckey as Chief of Army Reserve.

Flora Diana Darpino is a retired American general and military lawyer who was the 39th Judge Advocate General of the United States Army. She was the first woman to hold that position, which she held from September 4, 2013 to July 14, 2017.

Lillian Dunlap was an officer and military nurse in the United States Army. She served in the Pacific Theater during World War II, later rising to the rank of brigadier general and being made chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps.

Ann Elizabeth Dunwoody is a retired general of the United States Army. She is the first woman in U.S. military and uniformed service history to achieve a four-star officer rank, receiving her fourth star on November 14, 2008.

Mari K. Eder is a retired United States Army Major General. General Eder was appointed Commanding General of the United States Army Reserve Joint and Special Troops Support Command, Salt Lake City, Utah, in October 2009, retiring from the Army in 2013. Prior to assuming command of the USAR Joint and Special Troop Support Command, she was assigned as the Deputy Chief of the US Army Reserve and as the Deputy Chief of U.S. Army Public Affairs.

Barbara Fast is a former Major General in the United States Army. She retired with thirty two years of service in 2005. Fast is currently employed by CGI Group as Senior Vice President, Army and Defense Intelligence Business Unit within CGI Federal.

Robin Louise Fontes is a United States Army major general. In July 2017 she took command of Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan, becoming the highest-ranking female military officer in Afghanistan since the American invasion of that country in 2001. A mustang officer, Fontes was commissioned in 1986 and focused on Central Asia, eventually serving in Tajikistan, Pakistan, and India, including a few years in Afghanistan. She assumed her current position after the resignation of Michael Flynn from the Trump Administration ended her announced role as senior director for India, Pakistan and Central Asian Affairs on the United States National Security Council.

Evelyn Patricia Foote is a retired US Army brigadier general. She served from 1959 to 1989, rising to the rank of brigadier general in 1986, and holds many firsts for women in the U.S. Army.

Major General (retired) Kathryn G. Frost was the commander of the United States Army and Air Force Exchange Service from August 2002 to April 2005. At the time of her retirement, she was the highest-ranking woman in the United States Army. She was also the wife of former United States Representative Martin Frost of Texas.

Lieutenant General Kathleen M. Gainey is a retired US Army general who served as Deputy Commander, United States Transportation Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. She retired in 2013.

Rebecca Stevens "Becky" Halstead is a former United States Army officer who is the first female graduate of West Point to become a general officer. She culminated her career as the 34th Chief of Ordnance and Commandant of the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and Schools at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

Brigadier General Anna Mae Violet McCabe (Ret.) was an American military officer who served as the 13th chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. She was the first woman in the U.S. Armed Forces to be promoted to a General Officer rank; in 1970, she was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. Hays paved the way for equal treatment of women, countering occupational sexism, and made a number of recommendations, which were accepted into military policy.

Patricia Parsons Hickerson is a retired major general in the United States Army. She served for 32 years and served as Adjutant General of the Army from 1991 to 1994. Upon her retirement in 2001, Hickerson held the rank of two-star General, the third woman in U.S. Army history to receive her second star, and the senior woman officer in the Army.

Elizabeth Paschel Hoisington was a United States Army officer who was one of the first two women to attain the rank of brigadier general.

Diana M. Holland is an American military officer. A major general in the United States Army, she commands the Mississippi Valley Division of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. She is a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. From January 2016 to June 2017, served as commandant of cadets at the United States Military Academy, the first woman to hold the position.

Patricia D. Horoho is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and was the 43rd U.S. Army Surgeon General and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Command. She was the first woman and first Nurse Corps Officer to hold those appointments. In 2016, she was inducted into the U.S. Army Women's Foundation Hall of Fame.

Brigadier General Heidi J. Hoyle is the 22nd commanding general officer of the U.S. Army Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command and before, she was the 41st Chief of Ordnance and Commandant of the U.S. Army Ordnance School at Fort Lee, Virginia. She took over command of SDDC on June 23, 2020.

Hazel Winifred Johnson-Brown was a nurse and educator who served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1983. In 1979, she became the first Black female general in the United States Army and the first Black chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps. She was also the Director of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing.

Janis Leigh Karpinski is a career officer in the US Army Reserve and a war criminal, now retired. She is notable for having commanded the forces that operated Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq in 2003 and 2004, at the time of the scandal related to torture and prisoner abuse. She commanded three prisons in Iraq, and the forces that ran them. Her education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and secondary education from Kean College, a Master of Arts degree in aviation management from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and a Master of Arts in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College.

Jimmie O. Keenan, who held the rank of Major General, was the Deputy Commanding General of the Medical Command of the United States Army and also the Chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps before retiring on January 1, 2016. She now works at WellMed Medical Management in San Antonio, Texas.

Claudia Jean Kennedy is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Army. She is the first woman to reach the rank of three-star general in the U.S. Army. She retired in 2000 after 31 years of military service.

Mary A. Legere is a retired Lieutenant General and the former Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G-2) of the United States Army.

Joane K. Mathews is a Brigadier General in the Wisconsin Army National Guard.

Brigadier General Colleen L. McGuire is a retired officer of the United States Army. She was the Commanding General of the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command and the 13th Provost Marshal General, the first woman to hold either position. Brigadier General McGuire was also the first woman to be commandant of the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Patricia E. McQuistion is retired lieutenant general of the United States Army. She served as deputy commander and chief of staff for the U.S. Army Materiel Command from 2012 until her retirement in 2015.

Dee Ann McWilliams, is a retired United States Army Major General. McWilliams is past President of the Women in Service for America Memorial Foundation. She took her commission in 1974 in the Women's Army Corps and was assigned to the Adjutant General Corps. In over 29 years with the Army, she held a variety of Human Relations positions, commanding four companies, a training battalion, and a personnel brigade. She also taught national strategic studies and leadership, and served as an Equal Opportunity Officer.

Coral Wong Pietsch is a United States Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. She is a former Brigadier General in the United States Army Reserve. In 2001 she became the first woman Army Judge Advocates General (JAG), and the first Asian-American woman to reach the rank of general in the United States Army.

Gale S. Pollock is a retired United States Army major general who served as the Deputy Surgeon General of the United States Army from October 2006 to March 2007, and also as chief of the Army Nurse Corps. She became acting Surgeon General of the United States Army for nine months following the 20 March 2007 retirement of her predecessor, Kevin C. Kiley, due to fallout from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal.

N. Lee S. Price is a retired United States Army officer and last served as the Program Executive Officer for the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office, Command Control Communications-Tactical, headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.

Laura Jane Strickland Richardson is a lieutenant general in the United States Army and commanding general of United States Army North. She previously served as deputy commanding general of United States Army Forces Command. As an army aviator, Richardson flew Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. Promoted to brigadier general in 2011, she served in various commands at Fort Hood and served as chief of staff for communication in the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. In June 2017, she was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed deputy commanding general of United States Army Forces Command (FORSCOM). Richardson served as acting commander of FORSCOM from October 2018 until March 2019. In April 2019, she was nominated to serve as the first female commander of United States Army North. She assumed command on July 8, 2019.

Tammy Smith is a major general of the United States Army Reserve. She received her confirmation to major general on July 13, 2016, and was formally promoted to the position in a ceremony at the United States Army Garrison Yongsan in Seoul, Korea. Smith is the deputy commanding general-sustainment for the Eighth United States Army. She is the first female general officer to serve in an Eighth Army headquarters-level position. Prior to this position, she served as the commanding general of the 98th Training Division, and served for a year in the War in Afghanistan.

Major General Joyce "Joy" Stevens is the first female general officer in the Texas Army National Guard. She was promoted to brigadier general on 14 July 2006 and has more recently been promoted to Major general, retroactive to 5 August 2010. She is currently assistant to the Adjutant General of the Texas Military Forces and dually titled as the Commander of the Texas Army National Guard, commanding approximately 19,000 soldiers and 117 armories in 102 communities across Texas.

Loree K. Sutton is an American psychiatrist and retired military officer who served as a Brigadier General in the United States Army. Sutton served for over 20 years and was awarded a Bronze Star. From 2007 to 2010, She was the Army’s highest-ranking psychiatrist. In 2014, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed Sutton as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Veterans' Services. Sutton is a candidate in the 2021 New York City mayoral election.

Brigadier General Alicia A. Tate-Nadeau is the first woman to be promoted to general in the Illinois Army National Guard. She currently serves as the Acting Director of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.

Nadja Yudith West is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and the 44th U.S. Army Surgeon General and former Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Command. West, a physician, was the first black Army Surgeon General, and was the first black female active-duty major general and the first black female major general in Army Medicine. West is also the first Army black female lieutenant general. She is the highest ranking woman to have graduated from the United States Military Academy.

Margaret (Peggy) C. Wilmoth, PhD, RN, FAAN Executive Dean, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina School of Nursing.

Major General Laura L. Yeager is an officer in the Army National Guard. Effective June 29, 2019 she became the commander of the National Guard's 40th Infantry Division. She is the first woman to command a United States Army infantry division.