Jeanine McIntosh Menze is a United States Coast Guard officer.

[1] At the time of her graduation, she was the first black female aviator in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.

She began Coast Guard aviation training at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas in January 2005.

She earned her aviator wings on June 24, 2005 and was assigned to fly HC-130 Hercules aircraft out of Air Station Barbers Point, Hawaii.

[1] After graduation she served as a pilot of the HC-130 Hercules airplanes and flew rescue missions for the U.S. Coast Guard in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.