Retiring Native Hawaiian Army General Was A Trailblazer - Honolulu Civil Beat
Retiring Native Hawaiian Army General Was A Trailblazer
Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vares-Lum was the first Native Hawaiian woman to be an Army general and was the face of the military for many of Hawaii’s leaders. Reading time: 7 minutes.
Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vares-Lum’s 34 year military career has taken her around the globe, but the Wahiawa native retired Friday on her home island of Oahu.
The first Native Hawaiian woman to become an Army general, Vares-Lum was an intelligence officer whose assignments spanned the Cold War to the Iraq War.