Lt. Gen. Mary legere

Awards and Decorations

Lt. Gen. Mary Legere has served as the Army’s Senior

Intelligence Officer since April 2012, when she was

promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General.

She has served her country for more than thirty years in

positions of leadership and intelligence, and has

commanded at all levels.

Her first assignment was as a Collection and Jamming

Platoon Leader assigned to the United States Army in

Europe.

She has also commanded at the company,

battalion and brigade command level, and as the

commanding general, U.S. Army intelligence and

security command responsible for directing and

orchestrating the multi-discipline intelligence and

security operations of 17,000 intelligence

professionals serving in over 20 countries across

the globe.

As an intelligence staff officer, she has served at the

brigade, division, corps and theater level serving as the

senior military intelligence officer and j2 for united

states forces korea and for the multi-national forces

iraq.

She has been the recipient of numerous awards and

decorations, including the Defense Superior Service Medal

(One Oak Leaf Cluster), the Legion of Merit (One Oak Leaf

Cluster), a Bronze Star Medal, a Meritorious Service Medal

(Five Oak Leaf Clusters), an Army Commendation Medal (Two

Oak Leaf Clusters), a Joint Service Achievement Medal, an

Army Achievement Medal (Two Oak Leaf Clusters), a

Parachutists Badge, and the Army Staff Identification Badge.

She has also received the Korean National Security Award,

the Knowlton Award, and the Directors Award for

Contributions to the Intelligence Community.

Lt. Gen. mary legere is one of just nineteen female

general officers in the army.

She has served as the senior U.S. Intelligence officer

for U.S. Forces korea and for multi-national force-iraq,

has participated in operation joint forge and

operation iraqi freedom and as the army’s senior

operational intelligence commander, directed and

supported multi-discipline operations in seven

geographic theaters around the globe.