Bronze Star Medal Defense Meritorious Service Medal Meritorious Service Medal with silver oak leaf cluster Jeannine M. Ryder is a U.S. Air Force major general; commander of the Air Force Medical Agency, Defense Health Headquarters, Falls Church, Virginia; and chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps.

[1] Ryder, a Massachusetts native, is a graduate of Boston College, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing.

[2] She took on various leadership positions starting in 1996, to include deputy commander, Education and Training Flight at the 55th Medical Support Squadron; and director, Education and Training, and deputy director, Human Resources, 78th Medical Group at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.

Ryder was then assigned to Kessler Air Force Base, Mississippi, where she served as the Maternal-Child Flight commander, 81st Inpatient Operations Squadron, followed by a deployment to Kabul, Afghanistan, as the executive officer/aide-de-camp, Combined Air Power Transition Force.

The wing provides 900,000 clinic visits, 18,000 surgical procedures, and greater than 300 worldwide deployments annually.