Col. Terri L. Toppin
Acting Chief of Staff/Director of Administration

Colonel Toppin is a 1983 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of University Studies Degree and holds a Master of Public Administration Degree from Troy State University, and a Master of Strategic Studies Degree from the Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

Colonel Toppin’s military career began in 1983. Prior to this assignment, Colonel Toppin served in a series of leadership and staff positions including: Director of Installation Policy in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Pentagon, Washington D.C., Services Squadron commander at Incirlik AB, Turkey and Holloman AFB, New Mexico; Chief of Services at King Salmon Airport, Alaska and deployed Chief of Services at Masirah Oman. While in command, her leadership led to two Air Force and four command awards. Colonel Toppin is a senior Services officer with deployment experience to OPERATIONS Desert Shield/Storm.

Colonel Toppin has received the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal with five oak leaf clusters, the Air Force Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters, Southwest Asia Service Medal with three bronze stars, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Kuwait Liberation Medal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Kuwait Liberation Medal Government of Kuwait.

(Current as of  June 2009)