That, of course, included fighter jets. Enter Major General Jeannie Leavitt. She was determined to fly combat missions, and pushed the issue. Following are edited excerpts from Part 1 of a ...

Retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie M. Leavitt, an aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics alumna, grew up in St. Louis and came to UT because she wanted to study aerospace engineering, UT said in a ...

Retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie M. Leavitt will deliver the keynote address at UT's spring commencement next month. She served in the Air Force for 31 years, logging more than 3,000 hours of flight time.

Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the U.S. Air Force’s first female fighter pilot, embodies a legacy of service and breaking barriers. From earning her wings in 1993 to commanding at the highest levels ...

Multiple webpages and media relating to retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, are no longer online amid the Trump administration's purge of diversity ...

Gen. Jeannie Leavitt was a role model for the filmmakers ... We actually kept in close touch with Major Stephen Del Bagno. A week before he crashed, he was on set with us, helping us make sure ...

In Part 1 of this interview series with Major General Jeannie Leavitt, the first U.S. Air Force female fighter pilot, she discussed her maverick breakthrough in the early 1990s, what it’s like ...

Jeannie Leavitt, shown here in a 2013 photo as a ... has also been nominated for major general. Goldfein also put Saltzman in charge of a major effort to improve the Air Force’s command and ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland -- When Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, head of the Air Force's recruiting service, interacts with the public, the topic of a yet-to-be-created Space Force comes up frequently.

"We are mourning the loss of Major Del Bagno," said Brig. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, 57th Wing Commander. "He was an integral part of our team and our hearts are heavy with his loss. We ask everyone to ...

Jeannie Leavitt, a retired major general who was the first female fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force, will be the University of Texas' spring commencement speaker next month, UT announced Monday.