Alenka Ermenc, born 5 September 1963, is an officer in the Slovenian army and was the first woman to hold the position of Chief of defence within NATO forces.

Ermenc's military career started when she became a member of the Slovenian Territorial Defence forces in Slovenia's independence war from Yugoslavia in 1991.

She was promoted to the rank of Major General by President, Borut Pahor, on 23 November 2018 at the Presidential Palace.

[4] Later that year, she became Chief of the General Staff, which made her the first woman to hold that position in Slovenia[5] and in NATO.

[2] She is a volunteer with Malteška pomoč Slovenija (Maltese Help of Slovenia), a national chapter of Malteser International, an international non-governmental aid agency for humanitarian aid of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.