Admiral Linda Fagan
Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard
Linda Lee Fagan was born in July 1963 in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy with a degree in marine science. She later earned an MS from the University of Washington and an MA in international security from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University.
During her Coast Guard career, she has commanded the First Coast Guard District in the New York sector, commanded the Coast Guard Pacific Area, and was the Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard, and that branch’s first female four-star admiral.
She was nominated to be the Commandant of the Coast Guard, confirmed by the Senate, and she received her unanimous consent confirmation in May 2022.
She is widowed of John J. Fagan. She has a daughter who has also graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
In the News…
Coast Guard officials contacted retirees and personnel this week to inform them of the efforts to restore their beneficiary enrollment information with the Defense Health Agency. An incomplete file caused data to be lost during a scheduled monthly update. Other federal department personnel were also impacted.
“We regret the inconvenience and uncertainty this outage has caused,” Coast Guard officials wrote in an email to members and retirees. “We appreciate your patience as our teams work to resolve this situation as fast as possible.”
The outage took 48 hours to correct.
