David H. Huntoon

David Holmes Huntoon Jr. (born October 27, 1951) is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who served as the 58th Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York from 2010 to 2013.

Early life Huntoon, born in Germany in 1951, attended the Baltimore City Public Schools and graduated from the Baltimore City College (high school) in 1969. Huntoon is a 1973 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. and Operation Desert Storm. He commanded a mechanized infantry battalion at Camp Casey, South Korea, and served in Combined and Joint Plans for the Combined Forces Command and United Nations Command in Seoul. He was the Army's National Security Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He then took command of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard). Following his service as the Executive Officer to the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, he was selected as an Army brigadier general. Director of Strategy, Plans and Policy for the US Army; Commandant of the United States Army War College and Director of the Army Staff in the Pentagon. According to The Washington Post, the Inspector General and the Army kept the information confidential until required to release it after a Freedom of Information Act request shortly before he retired in 2013.

Post-military career Huntoon is a member of the Spectrum Group in Alexandria, Virginia, where he directs a leadership development program. He has served for over a decade as strategic coach in leader development for the US Army in their Strategic Education Program. He lectures on leadership, strategic thinking, and national security strategy as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Excellence in Public Leadership at George Washington University, as a Professor of Practice at Washington University at Brookings Executive Education Program, and has spoken on leadership at other public and private sector professional organizations in the US.

He served for ten years as a Board Director and teacher for a non-profit business certification program which supports veterans and their caregivers, and is affiliated with Georgetown University. He also served as a Trustee on the Board of the American Public University System, on the Board of Directors of the Center for Excellence in Education, as a Member of two Presidential Appointed Boards of Visitors, and on the Board of Trustees of the Naval Postgraduate School. He is the recipient of the American Psychological Association's Robert Yerkes Award for contributions to military psychology.

Dates of rank Huntoon's military ranks are listed below by date.

Awards and decorations Army Distinguished Service Medal with two bronze oak leaf clusters Legion of Merit