Early Life
Mary Ann Davidson was raised in a Naval tradition. Her father, a veteran of World War II and Korea, was the academic dean at the US Naval Academy. Davidson attended the Severn School, a preparatory high school for the Naval Academy, graduating in 1976. After obtaining a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia, she was directly commissioned into the US Navy Civil Engineering Corps, eventually joining her sister Diane in a Reserve Naval Mobile Construction Battalion, an unusual assignment for a woman at the time. During her service she was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal.
Davidson later obtained an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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