A Woman's War The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy's First African American Female Intelligence Officer

When Gail Harris was assigned by the U.S. Navy to a combat intelligence job in 1973, she became the first African American female to hold such a position. Her 28-year career included hands-on leadership in the intelligence community during every major conflict from the Cold War to Desert Storm to Kosovo, and most recently she was at the forefront of one of the Department of Defense's newest challenges: cyber warfare. At her retirement, she was the highest-ranking African American woman in the Navy.