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Surgeon General of the US Army

Nadja Yudith West (née Grammer; March 20, 1961)^[2] is a retired United States Armylieutenant general and the 44th Surgeon General of the United States Army and former Commanding General of the United States Army Medical Command. West, a physician, was the first black Army Surgeon General, and was the first black female active-dutymajor general and the first black female major general in Army Medicine.^[3][4] West is also the first Army black female lieutenant general.^[5] She is the highest ranking woman to have graduated from the United States Military Academy.

Early life and education

West was an orphan but was adopted at two years old into a family in the District of Columbia with eleven other adopted children total.^[6] Her adoptive parents were Mabel (née Treadwell) and Oscar Grammer. Her father was a career soldier and her mother was a journalist and founder of the "Brown Baby Michael tucci biography.