COL Kate Conkey, Ph.D.

COL Kate Conkey is an assistant professor and course director in the Department of Behavioral Science & Leadership at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.

Her most recent military assignments included battalion command of the Brigade Special Troops Battalion, Area Support Group – Kuwait, and professor of military science for the University of Hawai’i – Manoa Army Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps (SROTC) program in Honolulu, Hawaii. 

Before these leadership positions, COL Conkey served as the military police operations officer in a Corps Protection Cell as a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, I Corps at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), Washington. Additional assignments at JBLM included battalion executive and operations officer for the 22d Military Police (MP) Battalion (Criminal Investigation Division (CID)), 6th MP Group (CID). 

COL Conkey commissioned as a military police officer from Furman University’s Army SROTC Program in May 1999. She spent her first two years as a platoon leader for the 142nd MP Company, 94th MP Battalion in Yongsan, Republic of Korea, and the 571st MP Company, 504th MP Battalion at Fort Lewis, Washington. She served as an assistant S3 with the Task Force 504th MP Battalion in support of Kosovo 3B and 1st MP Brigade (Provisional), Fort Lewis.

As a captain, she served as Fort Campbell’s installation provost marshal before deploying to Mosul, Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom 04-06, where she assumed command of the 194th MP Company, 716th MP Battalion.