Patricia E. McQuistion is a retired lieutenant general of the United States Army.

[1][2] Patricia McQuistion received her initial army officer training in the ROTC program at the University of Akron in Ohio.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and received her commission as a second lieutenant for the United States Army Ordnance Corps in 1980.

She later earned a master's degree in acquisition management at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts and a master's degree in national resource strategy at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. McQuistion's nomination for promotion to colonel was received by the Senate along with 429 others on February 2, 2000, and approved on April 27.

[7] Two years later she assumed command of the Defense Supply Center in Columbus, Ohio on September 12, 2007.