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          Kathleen Hicks

          American government official (born 1970)

          Kathleen Anne Holland Hicks[1][2] (born September 25, 1970)[1][3] is an American civil servant who served as the United States deputy secretary of defense from 2021 to 2025.

          She is the first Senate-confirmed woman in this role and is the highest-ranking woman to have served in the United States Department of Defense.

          Hicks previously served as the principal deputyunder secretary of defense for policy during the Obama administration.[4] By 2020, Hicks was an academic and national security advisor working as a senior vice president and director of the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.[5]

          Education

          Hicks completed a B.A.

          in history and politics at Mount Holyoke College in 1991, where she graduated with magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors.[6] In 1993, she earned an M.P.A. in national security s