2010 DAA Recipient

General Ann E. Dunwoody

Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command
1975 graduate of State University of New York College at Cortland

Ann Dunwoody became the first woman to achieve a four-star officer grade, receiving her fourth star on November 14, 2008.

Dunwoody received her Army commission after graduating from SUNY College at Cortland in 1975. Her first assignment was to Fort Sill, Oklahoma as supply platoon leader in June 1976, and she remained at Sill in various positions until she was sent to quartermaster officer school at Fort Lee, Va., in July 1980.

After graduating from the Command and General Staff College in 1987, she was assigned to Fort Bragg, N.C., where she became the 82nd Airborne Division’s first female battalion commander. She served in the Gulf War in Operation Desert Storm, in 1990.

In 1996, Dunwoody was named to direct the Division Support Command of the 10th Mountain Division, in Fort Drum, NY.  From 1998-2000, she served as executive officer to General John Glisen, director of Defense Logistics Agency at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.  In 2000, she was promoted to brigadier general in command at Fort Bragg.

General Dunwoody has numerous decorations, including the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal and Kuwait Liberation Medals from service during Desert Storm.