456 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY Dr. Theresa A. Ware-Asbury distinguished herself as a member of the United States Navy from 1972 until her retirement in 1994. Notable for being the 14th Black woman to be commissioned as a naval officer, she went on to serve as a line officer in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she also worked as a human resource management consultant. During this time, she was part of the team that helped defuse racial tensions on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk and among service members in Japan. In the years following, Dr. Ware-Asbury contributed as a counselor with the BOOST Program, which sought to improve the academic skills of Navy and Marine personnel. Taking a two-year break in 1978, Dr. Ware-Asbury earned two graduate degrees in marriage and counseling psychology, after which she returned in 1980 to work at an inpatient drug and alcohol rehab center for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard in San Diego, California. She subsequently served as the director of the counseling and assistance center for a submarine base, where she was responsible for re-opening the center and setting up physical and administrative plans. Dr. Ware-Asbury later became the second-in-command of a transit personnel unit. In this role, she assisted in overseeing the discharge process for Navy service members. She would go on to make history as the first Black woman naval officer to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, D.C., a position she held until 1992. After earning her graduate degrees, Dr. Ware-Asbury achieved a doctorate in Africana women’s studies at Clark Atlanta University. Her dissertation focused on the progress of Black women officers compared to Black male and white women officers. Among other accomplishments to her credit, she is proud to have persevered and ultimately thrived in a hostile work environment that offered little professional support. DR. THERESA A. WARE-ASBURY COMMANDER United States Navy El Paso, TX
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