... As a lifelong Marylander, what I notice first about this leadership team is how demographically representative it appears to be in terms of who I personally know that serves in the Guard.
... for the first time in the nation, a state National Guard — Maryland's — is led by a command staff entirely composed of women. As of fall 2018, the top four leaders in the state's National Guard are all women — three of them African American — and all mothers.
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The all-female staffing was unintentional, Singh said. When the positions opened, Singh wasn't necessarily seeking an all-female leadership team — she simply wanted the most qualified candidates available, she said.
"I didn't even realize that it was going to line up this way," she said. "It's not like I engineered it for all of them to end up in these positions. It just to happened that these talented ones started rising to the top."
As a lifelong Marylander, what I notice first about this leadership team is how demographically representative it appears to be in terms of who I personally know that serves in the Guard.
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As a lifelong Marylander, what I notice first about this leadership team is how demographically representative it appears to be in terms of who I personally know that serves in the Guard.