Holly Petraeus

Hollister K. Petraeus (née Knowlton; born July 17, 1952) is a retired Assistant Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), where she headed up the Office of Servicemember Affairs.

[5] Petraeus spent six years as the Director of BBB Military Line,[6] a program of the Council of Better Business Bureaus providing consumer education and advocacy for service members and their families.

[7][8] In 2011, Elizabeth Warren appointed Petraeus to be Assistant Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, leading the Office of Servicemember Affairs.

[10] She has also been published in The New York Times, writing about exploitable clauses in the Higher Education Act that incentivize private for-profit colleges to see service members as “dollar signs in uniform” and recruit them aggressively.

[5][12] Petraeus appeared before several Congressional committees in her role at the CFPB in order to increase U.S. lawmakers’ awareness of the financial difficulties facing military service members.

The 18th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Ronald L. Green, hosts a sunset parade at the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington County, Virginia on August 11, 2015. The Honorable Mrs. Holly Petraeus, Assistant Director, Service Member Affairs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was the guest of honor at the parade.