James Henry Binford "Binnie" Peay III (born 10 May 1940) is a retired four-star general of the United States Army.

He served as the 14th superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute from 2003 to 2020,[1] and as chairman of the Allied Defense Group from 2001 to 2003.

[3] Peay graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1962 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering, where he was a quarterback on the football team and is an initiate of the Beta Commission of the Kappa Alpha Order; he was the first Kappa Alpha inducted into the Military Division when it was established in 2009.

He also has a Master of Arts from George Washington University and graduated from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in June 1971 and the United States Army War College in June 1978.

After serving with the Army Military Personnel Center in Washington, D.C., as a Field Artillery branch assignments officer, Peay was sent to Hawaii in 1975 to command the 2d Battalion, 11th Field Artillery Regiment, 25th Infantry Division.

He was promoted to general on March 26, 1993, and appointed as the twenty-fourth Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army.

Peay resigned in June 2003 to assume the position of Superintendent of his alma mater, Virginia Military Institute (VMI).