Major General Peggy Wilmoth

Last Name: Wilmoth

First Name: Margaret

Middle Name: C.

Nickname: Peggy

Medals and Honors:

• Army Distinguished Service Medal

• Defense Superior Service Medal

• Legion of Merit (2)

• United States Army Women's Foundation Hall of Fame

• Order of Military Medical Merit

• Selected to North Carolina Institute of Medicine

ACNSL Offices and Committees: Global Health Committee Chair

Rank: Major General
Service/Department: U.S. Army
Last or Significant Assignment: Deputy Surgeon General, US Army Reserve in the Office the Surgeon General, US Army

Areas of Experience:

• Medical Readiness

• Field Medicine

Articles, Books and Publications:

Margaret C. "Peggy" Wilmoth is a nursing professional, academic and a retired senior officer of the United States Army Reserve. She is Executive Dean, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina School of Nursing. She was previously the inaugural Dean and Professor at the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions at Georgia State University. She was promoted to brigadier general in 2005, becoming the first nurse and first woman to command a medical brigade as a general officer, and later attained the rank of major general.

Wilmoth received both her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Masters of Science in Nursing degrees from University of Maryland, her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, and her master's degree in strategic studies from the United States Army War College.

Wilmoth was Professor of Nursing at UNC Charlotte as well as the Assistant for Mobilization and Reserve Affairs for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.

Wilmoth is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a Health Policy Fellow alumni of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

United States Army Women's Foundation Hall of Fame