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Ms. Colvin served as a Trustee of El Pomar Foundation’s Board from March 2020-March 2024 and returned to the Board as a Trustee in January 2025. She has also served as a regional council member on El Pomar’s Pikes Peak Regional Council since 2016.
Colonel (Ret) Gail Benjamin Colvin (USAF) is Chief of Staff at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO. A key member of the university superintendent’s cabinet, Ms. Colvin serves as the Academy’s Chief Business Officer, overseeing a broad range of administrative, policy, and organizational functions of the Academy’s 400–person staff supporting the commissioning and university missions as well as the installation’s 10,000 personnel workforce, $450 million budget, and over $9 billion in real property and infrastructure.Her 30-year military career is marked by diverse leadership experience in a wide variety of disciplines including joint military doctrine, research and development, and weapon systems acquisition. She has commanded at the squadron and group level and served in a variety of positions at the Joint Staff, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, and major command levels. Colonel Colvin served as the Chief of Joint Doctrine for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and headed the U.S. delegation to the NATO subcommittee on Allied Joint doctrine.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, she graduated from the Academy as a member of the first class with women in 1980. She is a board member of the Colorado Federal Executive Board developing strategies and serving as a catalyst to increase government effectiveness for over 250 federal field offices, 53,000 civilian federal employees and 40,000 military personnel at six military installations throughout the state. She currently serves on several community boards and is a member of El Pomar’s Elevating Leadership Development program Colorado Springs Black Advisory Council. Ms. Colvin earned a master’s degree in business administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a Masters in National Security and Strategic Studies from Air War College, and is a certified Level 3 acquisition professional. She is the recipient of New York’s 2007 USO Military Leadership Award, the Academy’s 2008 Roy Wilkins NAACP award, USAFA’s 2020 Distinguished Graduate Award, and a Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame Class of 2024 Inductee.
