Coral Wong Pietsch
United States general
Coral Wong Pietsch (née Wong; born November 11, 1947) is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. She is a former brigadier general in the United States Army Reserve. In 2001 she became the first female general officer in the Army Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps, and the first Asian-American woman to reach general officer rank in the United States Army.
Biography
Pietsch was born in Waterloo, Iowa, to a Chinese immigrant father from Canton, China, who had come to the United States to start a Chinese restaurant, and a Czech American mother. After earning a bachelor's degree in theatre from the College of Saint Teresa, and later a master's degree in drama from Marquette University, she went on to attend the Catholic University of America for law school, graduating in 1974. There she would meet her future husband, James Pietsch, an army officer who was also attending to become a lawyer.
Commissioned into the Judge Advocate General's Corps in 1974, she was assigned to Eighth Army in Korea then to Fort Shafter, Hawaii, completing her active duty requirement, and transferring to the Army Reserves. After active duty, she settled down and began to reside in Hawaii with her husband and became a civilian attorney for U.S. Army Pacific. While a reservist she had been deployed to Johnston Atoll, Japan, the Philippines, Washington D.C., and Iraq. She was a chair commissioner of the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, with her term expiring while deployed.
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