Name |
Class year |
Notability |
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Johnson, Hansford T.Hansford T. Johnson |
1959 |
General; first graduate to be promoted to the rank of four-star General (on October 01, 1989); Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environment (2001–2005); Acting Secretary of the Navy (2003); pilot; Vietnam War veteran |
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McArtor, T. AllenT. Allen McArtor |
1964 |
Senior manager FedEx (1979–1987, 1989–1994); administrator of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (1987–1989); former CEO, Legend Airlines; current chair, Airbus, North American Holdings |
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Burkett, F. MichaelF. Michael Burkett |
1970 |
Assistant Minority Leader of the Idaho State Senate (1989–1992, 2002–2008) |
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Reed, ChuckChuck Reed |
1970 |
Mayor of San Jose, California (2007–); graduated first in his class and scored the maximum on the Physical Readiness Test; his daughter Kim Reed-Campbell was also first in her Academy class |
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Grappo, Gary A.Gary A. Grappo |
1972 |
United States Ambassador to Oman (2006–); career Foreign Service Officer |
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Thompson, William "T"William "T" Thompson |
1973 |
Commissioner, Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission, Boston, MA. Appointed to 5 four-year terms (1983-2000). Served three governors in both Democratic and Republican administrations. Is the longest serving Commissioner in the Agency’s history. Commissioner, Governor’s Minority Business Commission (1987-1990); International Captain, Delta Air Lines, (1980-2005). Attorney, MA and DC bars. President and CEO, the Summit Group Companies, (1981-2008), President and CEO, Association of Graduates, United States Air Force Academy, (2008-). |
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Inglis, John C.John C. Inglis |
1976 |
Brigadier General; Deputy Director of the National Security Agency (2006–) |
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Manson, CraigCraig Manson |
1976 |
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Interior 2002-05; California State Superior Court Judge 1998-2002; Professor of Law, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law 2006-09. |
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McLaughlin, Joseph R.Joseph R. McLaughlin |
1976 |
Commissioned into the United States Army; infantry platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, earned a Masters of Science from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and was a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth, Kansas; Republican member of the Onslow County, North Carolina Board of Commissioners, and was a candidate for U.S. Congress challenging incumbent Walter B. Jones, Jr. for the Republican nomination in North Carolina's 3rd congressional district in 2008 |
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Weinstein, Michael L. "Mikey"Michael L. "Mikey" Weinstein |
1977 |
Served as a U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General (JAG) officer for ten years. Spent over three years in the West Wing of the Reagan White House as legal counsel to the White House; began with an appointment to the Office of Budget Management and was soon named the Committee Management Officer of the much-publicized Iran-Contra Investigation in his capacity as Assistant General Counsel of The White House Office of Administration, Executive Office of the President of the United States; Later went on to become founder and president of the four-time Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), a civil rights watchdog and constitutionalist organization advocating church-state separation. |
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