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Title	[Portrait of Evelyn Patricia Foote, circa 1977]
Date	1977
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	United States--History--1945- United States. Army--Women
Era	Post-Vietnam, Panama, Grenada (1975-1989)
Service branch	Army
Item description	Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Evelyn "Pat" Foote, circa 1977. She wears the army green service uniform with lieutenant colonel oak leaf pin on the shoulder boards, military police lapel pin, and Vietnam shoulder sleeve patch. On her right jacket breast Foote wears the meritorious unit commendation award, and on her left (top to bottom, left to right) the bronze star medal ribbon bar; meritorious service ribbon bar with oak leaf cluster; army commendation medal ribbon bar with oak leaf cluster; national defense service medal ribbon bar; Vietnam service medal ribbon bar; armed forces reserve medal ribbon bar; and Vietnam service medal ribbon bar.
Veteran's name	Foote, Evelyn Patricia
Veteran's biography	Evelyn “Pat” Foote (b. 1930) of Durham, North Carolina, served as an officer in the U.S. 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 in North Carolina, graduating with a sociology degree in 1953. She then held various jobs before receiving a commission to the U.S. Army in November 1959 . In February 1960 Foote began her career in the Women’s Army Corps [WAC] at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and after completing officer training became platoon officer for the training battalion there. Her subsequent duty stations include: Portland, Oregon (1961-1964); Fort Belvoir, Virginia (1964-66); Saigon, Vietnam (1967); Washington, D.C. (1968-71, 1972-73, 1986-88); Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (1971-72); Fort McPherson, Georgia (1974-76); Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania (1976-77); and Manheim, Germany (1983-1986). Her final command was at Fort Belvior, where she also served as deputy commander of the Military District of Washington . During her thirty year career, Foote commanded at the company, battalion, brigade, and major installation levels. She commanded one of the first integrated training battalions; became the first female public relations officer in Vietnam in 1967; was the first female faculty member of the U.S. Army War School in 1979; was the first female brigade commander in Europe; became the first female inspector general in the army in 1986; and became the first female commander of Fort Belvoir, Virginia, in 1988. When Foote was promoted to Brigadier General in 1986, she became one of only four female generals in the U.S. Army." Foote retired in 1989 but remained involved in issues related to women in the military, serving on many committees and organizations and as a prominent public speaker. Foote also served on the first Clinton-Gore National Veterans Task Force, on the American Battle Monuments Commission, and as one of the original members of the World War II Memorial Committee. She was recalled to active duty in 1996 and served for one year as the vice chairman of the Secretary of the Army’s Senior Review Panel on Sexual Harassment. In 1998, she became president of the Alliance for National Defense. Foote is a recipient of an honorary doctorate degree from Wake Forest University, and served on its Board of Visitors from 1995 to 1998.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0360 Evelyn Patricia Foote Papers
Collection summary	2006 oral history interview,uniformsUS Army 1960-1989, 1996-1997, copy of 1993 US Army Senior Officer Oral History Program, Volumes 1 and 2, oral history, photo. See finding aid for the Evelyn P. Foote Papers at Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University: https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/27799
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse. Courtesy of Special Collections, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University
Object ID	WV0360.6.002
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900813953

[Portrait of Evelyn Patricia Foote, circa 1977]

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