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 Elaine Donnelly is founder and President of the Center for Military Readiness, an independent public policy organization that specializes in military personnel issues. CMR advocates high, single standards in training, and sound priorities in military/social policies. In 2008 the Center, based in Michigan and in Washington, D.C., will celebrate its 15th anniversary.
In 1984, then-Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger appointed Mrs. Donnelly to be a member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) for a three-year term. In 1992 she was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to serve as a member of the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces.
As a member of the DACOWITS and the presidential commission, Mrs. Donnelly participated in fact-finding visits to numerous military bases all over the country, including the Army’s Fort Bragg, three Marine training bases, the Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy, several ships, submarines and a SEAL training facility.
Her comprehensive, peer-reviewed article for the Duke University Journal of Gender Law & Policy, titled “Constructing the Co-Ed Military,” was published in the May 2007 edition. She is a contributor to Human Events and National Review Online’s “The Tank.” Additional articles on military personnel issues have been published in many newspapers nationwide, including the Washington Post, USA Today, the Washington Times, and the Naval Institute’s Proceedings. Mrs. Donnelly has appeared on most network and cable channel networks, and participated in a PBS 2-hour National Review “Firing Line” debate.
In1997 Elaine Donnelly was the first woman to receive the Adm. John Henry Towers award from the New York Naval Aviation Commandery, in recognition of her support for naval aviation. At the 2002 Annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), she was presented with the prestigious Ronald Reagan Award.
Elaine Donnelly has testified before congressional committees, and participated in educational programs sponsored by the Naval Institute, Hillsdale College, the Foreign Policy Institute, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, Independent Women’s Forum, and a number of events sponsored by veterans’ groups and military academy alumni organizations. She attended Schoolcraft College and the University of Detroit, and resides in Livonia, Michigan, with her husband, Terry, and is the mother of two grown daughters.
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