Maj. Gen. LaRita A. Aragon (USAF Ret), director of advanced programs at the OU College of Continuing Education in Norman, was named winner of the Journal Record's 2008 Woman of the Year.
The announcement came at a black-tie banquet Thursday night in Oklahoma City.
Aragon became the first female commander of the Oklahoma Air National Guard when she assumed command of the 137th Services Flight.
A former Oklahoma City school principal, she began work for the guard full-time in 1997.
She served as assistant to the commander of air education and training for the U.S. Air Force at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas and then as assistant to the chief of staff of Staff Manpower and Personnel at the Pentagon. She is a native of Dale, OK., and is of Choctaw descent.
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