page_title: Marcia Anderson
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Marcia Anderson / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: A standing room only crowd attended a panel discussion “African-Americans in Times of War” held at College of DuPage. The discussion, aligned with Black History Month, was moderated by College of DuPage President and retired three-star U.S. Navy Admiral Dr. Ann Rondeau and featured Retired U.S. Army Major General Marcia Anderson, the first African-American Brigadier General to serve as the Deputy Commanding General of the Army’s Human Resources Command and the first African-American female major general in the Army, Army Reserve or Active Army. Additional panelists included fellow African-American veterans COD Associate Professor of Computer and Internetworking Felix Davis, COD Associate Professor of Business Peter James, COD Foundation President Sherman Neal and COD student Tanika Moore.
context_page_description: Marcia Carol Martin Anderson was the first African-American woman to become a major general in the United States Army Reserve. The first African-American woman to become an active duty major general is Nadja West.
context_section_description: As a civilian, Anderson serves as Clerk of Court for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.
  A 1979 graduate of Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska  a 1986 graduate of Rutgers School of Law–Newark in New Jersey, and a 2003 graduate of the United States Army War College.  She is married to Amos Charles Anderson. She originally signed up for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Creighton University because she needed a science credit.
  In 2011, Anderson became the first African-American woman to achieve the federally recognized rank of major general in the United States Army, United States Army Reserve or United States Army National Guard.
  Anderson retired from the reserve army in 2016 but continued with her civilian job.
caption: Anderson in 2018
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