LTC(R) Jennifer Voigtschild

LTC(R) Jennifer Voigtschild is the United States Military Academy (USMA) command historian, where she serves on the superintendent's staff.

She graduated from USMA in 1993 as an American history major with academic honors. She commissioned into the Adjutant General’s Corps and was stationed in Germany; Fort Jackson, South Carolina; Fort Meade, Maryland; USMA; Fort Hood, Texas; and the Pentagon throughout her 20-year Army career, commanding a station of the Defense Courier Service and the Army Element of the Defense Intelligence Agency and Defense Attaché System.

Ms. Voigtschild also attended graduate school at Rutgers University for two years, earning a master’s degree in American history with a follow-on assignment teaching American history to cadets at USMA. She deployed to Bosnia twice in the 1990s and Iraq in 2010 before retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 2013.

She now serves as the USMA command historian, a Department of the Army civilian position on the superintendent’s special staff. Her son, Joseph, is a 2021 USMA graduate and an Army medevac helicopter pilot assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division. Her daughter, Julianna, attends law school at Rutgers University.