Trump picks former congresswoman and Air Force veteran Heather Wilson as Air Force secretaryBy Dan Lamothe
January 23, 2017
President Trump will nominate a former congresswoman and veteran who served on the National Security Council during President George H.W. Bush’s administration to be his Air Force secretary, the White House said Monday.
Former representative Heather A. Wilson (R-N.M.) is currently the president of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, a science and engineering university in Rapid City, S.D. She was the first female veteran elected to a full term in Congress, and left the House in 2009 after a failed primary run for the Senate seat now held by Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.). She served in the Air Force in the 1980s after graduating from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., leaving as a captain. She also was a Rhodes Scholar.
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