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Evelyn Pat Foote (b. 1930) of Durham, North Carolina, served as an officer in the United States Army from 1959 to 1989, rising to the rank of brigadier general in 1986. She retired as the first female commander of Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and became a prominent speaker about issues concerning women in the military. From 1998 to 2007 she served as president of the Alliance for National Defense. Evelyn Patricia Pat Foote was born on 19 May 1930 in Durham, North Carolina, the youngest of three children. Her parents, Evelyn Sidena Womack Foote and Henry Alexander Foote, both worked for the American Tobacco Company while Foote was a child. In 1945, the Foote family moved to Washington, D.C., and Pat Foote graduated from Central High School in 1947. She attended Wake Forest College [...] Read more
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