La'Shanda Holmes

Lieutenant Commander

La'Shanda Renee Holmes
Holmes in 2010
Born1985 (age 38–39)
Plainfield, New Jersey
Service / branchUnited States Coast Guard
Official Coast Guard photo of Lt. La’Shanda Holmes, the Coast Guard's first African American female helicopter pilot, and a 2015 White House Fellow (assigned to NASA). Coast Guard

La'Shanda R. Holmes is a lieutenant commander in the United States Coast Guard[1] and the first African-American female helicopter pilot[2] for the Coast Guard.[3] She grew up in the foster care system and put herself through Spelman College.[4] She was an Aircraft Commander at Air Station Los Angeles, Air Station Atlantic City (where she was deployed multiple times to Washington D.C. (NCR) as a rotary wing air intercept pilot), and Air Station Miami. She has amassed over 2,000 flight hours conducting search and rescue, counter drug, law enforcement, and Presidential air-intercept missions.[2] She was appointed as a White House Fellow in 2015 by President Barack Obama.[5] In 2015–2016 she was the Special Assistant to the NASA Administrator General Charles F. Bolden.

Holmes received her BA in psychology from Spelman College and is a Bonner Scholar.[6] She sits on the board of directors for Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum, Foster Club, and Girls Fly![2]

References

  1. ^ "Meet The First Black Female U.S. Coast Guard Helicopter Pilot". News One. 10 February 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Helicopter Pilot La'Shanda Holmes Flies High Above the Crowd". www.spelman.edu. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  3. ^ Service, Rushawn Walters, Howard University News (14 February 2017). "U.S. Coast Guard helicopter pilot La'Shanda Holmes defies odds, expectations to break barriers". St. Louis American. Retrieved 3 March 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "La'Shanda Holmes". FosterClub. 6 July 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Plainfield: Meet Hometown Hero La'Shanda Holmes". TAPinto. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  6. ^ "Celebrating women of character, courage and commitment: Lt. La'Shanda Holmes « Coast Guard All Hands". allhands.coastguard.dodlive.mil. Archived from the original on 13 October 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2019.

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