Heidi V. Brown

Born in Texas[2] and raised in El Paso, Brown graduated from Austin High School in 1977.

[3][4] That same year, she was nominated by Congressman Richard Crawford White to the United States Military Academy.

[7] Brown worked at the Pentagon where she developed a computer program to identify demographic profiles of deployed Army units.

[8][10] In 2002, Brown became the first woman to command an air defense artillery brigade in the Army.

[9] Later she became the director of global operations for the U.S. Strategic Command stationed in Offutt Air Force Base.