Stephanie (Quirk) Howard
Class of 1990
Major General-Military
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Major General Howard currently works at the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). She leads their supply chain strategy development and is responsible for providing surge capacity to DLA with Reserve support.
General Howard graduated from Concord High School in 1990.
While at Concord, she participated in cross country, swimming, and track & field all four years. During her senior year, she applied to West Point and received a nomination from Delaware US Senator William Roth (1971-2001). Upon graduation, she accepted an Appointment to West Point and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1994. After graduation she attended explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) school. Her initial Army assignments include EOD positions in Kaiserslautern and Mannheim, Germany, and two tours in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
In 1999, General Howard transitioned to the United States Army Reserve with an assignment in Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. Soon after 9/11, while the Howards were living in Fort Irwin, California, General Howard was mobilized and spent the next two and a half years on active-duty working ammunition issues in Alexandria, VA.
General Howard has spent time instructing ROTC at George Mason University and the University of Virginia, teaching mid-level Officers in Germany and Virginia, and working for the Chief of the Army Reserve in the Pentagon. She commanded a logistics battalion in Afghanistan and a training brigade in Fort Lee, Virginia. She was the Deputy Commander, 451st Expeditionary Sustainment Command, in Wichita, Kansas, and Deputy Commanding General, 108th Training Command, in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a general officer, she performed as acting Vice Director of the Army Staff and commanded the Army Reserve Sustainment Command in Birmingham, Alabama. General Howard most recently spent time in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as the acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics.
General Howard is married to Jonathan Howard, the General Counsel for the Defense Intelligence Agency, and they live in Northern Virginia. Their son Nathan is a student at University of Virginia and a newly initiated member of Alpha Kappa Psi.
Their daughter Megan and son Evan both graduated from Harvard and currently work in finance at Bridgewater and Jane Street in New York City.
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