Major General Marcia M. Anderson, U.S. Army, Retired
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Marcia Anderson is the Clerk of Court for the Bankruptcy Court - Western District of Wisconsin since 1998, where she is responsible for the management of the budget and administration of bankruptcy cases for 44 counties in Western Wisconsin. Major General Anderson recently retired in 2016 from a distinguished career in the U. S. Army Reserve after 36 years of service, to include serving as the Deputy Commanding General of the Army’s Human Resources Command at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In 2011, she became the first African American woman to achieve the rank of Major General in the history of the U. S. Army. Her service culminated with an assignment at the Pentagon as the Deputy Chief Army Reserve (DCAR). As the DCAR, she represented the Chief, Army Reserve, and had oversight for the planning, programming, and resource management for the execution of an Army Reserve budget of $8 billion that supported over 225,000 Army Reserve Soldiers, civilians and their families. She is a graduate of the Rutgers University School of Law, the U. S. Army War College and Creighton University. |