Lt. General
Patricia E. McQuistion

Lieutenant General Patricia E. McQuistion graduated from the University of Akron in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. She was commissioned as an Ordnance Officer through the ROTC program at the university.

In her 35-year Army career, Lieutenant General McQuistion has served in numerous command positions; to include, Company Commander, 56th Field Artillery Command, United States Army Europe and Seventh Army, West Germany; Commander, Special Troops Battalion, 64th Corps Support Group, 13th Corps Support Command at Fort Hood; and Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania. In addition, she has served on the Army General Staff as speechwriter for the Chief of Staff of the Army, special assistant for personnel and logistics  for the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, and Director for Strategy and Integration within the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army (G-4).

Upon promotion to Brigadier General in September 2006, Lieutenant General McQuistion went to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, as Deputy Commanding General, Army Field Support Command with duty as Commanding General, Army Materiel Command Forward – Southwest Asia/C-4, Coalition Forces Land Component Command.

Following a two-year assignment as Commander of the Defense Supply Center at Columbus, Ohio, she was promoted to Major General and assumed command of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command for U.S. Army-Europe and Seventh Army in Kaiserslautern, Germany in August 2009. Following this assignment, she served as Commanding General of U.S. Army Sustainment Command from October 2011 to July 2012.

Upon promotion to Lieutenant General in August 2012, Lieutenant General McQuistion culminated her Army career as Deputy Commanding General/Chief of Staff for U.S. Army Materiel Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.