Larry Wilkerson, Chief of Staff for U.S.
Department of State,
To Address Audience at Tri-County’s Annual Report Luncheon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10/15/2004
(By Lisa Garrett)
PENDLETON --- Larry Wilkerson, chief of staff for the U.S. Department
of State, will deliver the keynote address at Tri-County Technical College’s
Annual Report to the People Luncheon on Thursday, October 21.
The luncheon annually attracts approximately 300 community, business,
industrial, government and political leaders from Anderson, Oconee and
Pickens counties.
Colonel Wilkerson, U.S. Army (Retired), joined General Colin L. Powell
in March 1989 at the U.S. Army’s Forces Command in Atlanta, Georgia
as his Deputy Executive Officer. He followed the General to his next
position as Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, serving as his
special assistant. Upon Powell's retirement from active service in 1993,
Colonel Wilkerson served as the Deputy Director and Director of the
U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Virginia. Upon Wilkerson’s
retirement from active service in 1997, he began working for General
Powell in a private capacity as a consultant and advisor.
In December 2000, Secretary of State-designate Powell asked Wilkerson
to join him in the Transition Office at the U.S. State Department and,
later, upon his confirmation as Secretary of State, Secretary Powell
moved Wilkerson to his Policy Planning Staff with responsibilities for
East Asia and the Pacific, and legislative and political-military affairs.
In June of 2002, the Director for Policy Planning, Ambassador Richard
Haass, made Wilkerson the associate director. In August of 2002, Secretary
Powell moved Wilkerson to the position of Chief of Staff of the Department.
Wilkerson is a veteran of the Vietnam War, having served in Korea,
Japan, and Hawaii, and he participated in military exercises throughout
the Pacific. Moreover, Wilkerson was Executive Assistant to U.S. Navy
Admiral Stewart A. Ring, director for Strategy and Policy (J5) USCINCPAC,
from 1984-87. Wilkerson also served on the faculty of the U.S. Naval
War College at Newport, Rhode Island, and holds two advanced degrees,
one in International Relations and the other in National Security Studies.
He has written extensively on military and national security affairs–especially
for college-level curricula--and been published in a number of professional
journals, including the Naval Institute’s Proceedings, The Naval War
College Review, Military Review, and Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ).
Colonel Wilkerson is the son of Paul and Lucy Wilkerson, of Seneca.
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