17 Facts About Kristin Goodwin

Kristin Elizabeth Goodwin is a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force.

Kristin Goodwin served as the Academy's commandant of cadets, a post from which she was removed due to an Inspector General investigation.

Kristin Goodwin went on to be chief of staff of the United States Space Force's Space Operations Command.

Kristin Goodwin's father was active-duty in the US Coast Guard, and her mother retired from the Air Force Reserve.

Kristin Goodwin received her Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1993.

On 2 June 1993, Kristin Goodwin was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force; from August 1993 through January 1994, her first assignment was as the Assistant Deputy Executive Officer for Professional Military Studies at her alma mater, the Air Force Academy.

Kristin Goodwin then underwent flight training for the Cessna T-37 Tweet, Raytheon T-1 Jayhawk, and Lockheed C-130 Hercules at Laughlin and Little Rock Air Force Bases from January 1994 through August 1995.

From July 1999 through June 2001, Captain Kristin Goodwin worked in the Pentagon offices of the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Hugh Shelton, as part of the Air Force Intern Program.

Kristin Goodwin was stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base from June 2001 through July 2006.

From June 2002 through November 2004, Kristin Goodwin was a flight commander with the 325th Bomb Squadron, flying T-38s and acting as mission commander on B-2 sorties.

November 2004 through December 2005 saw then-Major Kristin Goodwin teaching B-2 pilots and still flying T-38s with the 509th Operations Support Squadron ; through July 2006 she added to her plate: Chief of Combat Plans for the 509th Bomb Wing.

Major Goodwin returned to the Pentagon in July 2006 to work under the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General T Michael Moseley.

From June 2011 through June 2012, Goodwin served as the executive officer to the Air Combat Command commander, General Gilmary M Hostage III, after which she was a Center for Strategic and International Studies fellow from June 2012 through June 2013.

Colonel Kristin Goodwin was then reassigned to Whiteman as the vice commander of the 509th Bomb Wing from June 2013 through August 2014, before becoming commander of the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base for 22 months.

The Air Force announced on 21 March 2017 that Colonel Kristin Goodwin was to be the next commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy, concurrently serving as commander of the 34th Training Wing.

Kristin Goodwin was still serving as commandant on 2 June 2018 when she was promoted to brigadier general.

Commandant Kristin Goodwin was credited with instituting new cadet discipline policies, but was reported to have a "stormy relationship with subordinates and colleagues".