Laurie Hummel served as Adjutant General-Alaska and Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs from 2015 to 2018, overseeing 4,100 soldiers and airmen. Laurie started her military career commissioned into the Military Intelligence Corps in 1982 and served 30 years in the Active Component Army in a variety of intelligence assignments, and also served as a consultant to the Defense Intelligence Agency and Woodrow Wilson Center. She deployed on several missions in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, including advising the Afghan National Army’s leaders of the National Military Academy of Afghanistan. MG Hummel holds graduate degrees from the University of Colorado (Ph.D.), Penn State (M.S.), Army War College (M.S.S.), University of Alaska Anchorage (M.Ed.), and a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy, where she has also taught as a professor.