Michelle Howard | Biography & Facts

Michelle Howard, in full Michelle Janine Howard, also called Michelle J. Howard, (born April 30, 1960, March Air Force Base, near Riverside, California, U.S.), U.S. military officer who was the first woman to become a four-star admiral in the U.S. Navy. She also made history as the first African American woman to captain a U.S. naval ship (1999). Howard was born on March Air Force Base (now March Air Reserve Base), California, where her father served as a master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. By the time she was 12 years old, she had started thinking about embarking on

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