
Colonel Maureen M. Clay, USAF (Retired), was born in Seattle, WA. She graduated from Central Washington University with a degree in Secondary Education and moved to Southern California after graduation. She was commissioned a second lieutenant through Officer Training School in Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas in August 1977. Her first assignment was to Germany as an Air Weapons Controller in a mobile tactical control squadron. Clay returned to Officer Training School as an Instructor and was selected as Non-Rated Air Training Command Instructor of the Year. She met her husband, John Kermeen and married in 1983. She was then selected for Education With Industry with reassignment to a Contracting career field. Colonel Clay then had multiple contracting assignments nation-wide, including two assignments at the Pentagon. She retired out of the Pentagon in 2004 and returned to West Cobb County, GA until moving to Big Canoe, GA in 2015. She is active in the Big Canoe Chapel, travels extensively, and plays golf (poorly according to her!). Colonel Clay also has a Masters Degree in Counseling from St Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. Her military education includes: Squadron Officers School, Air Command and Staff College, and Air War College.