DALLAS — A faculty member in Trine University’s Master of Business Administration
program was one of 34 people picked for a national program designed to equip leaders
supporting veterans and their families.
Jermaine King, an adjunct professor in the MBA program, was selected to the Class
of 2023 for the Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program, sponsored by the George W. Bush
Institute.
Jermaine serves as the Mission Support Group Chief (Senior Enlisted Leader) for Edwards
Air Force Base in California. In that role, he synchronizes civil engineering, human
resource management, hospitality, supply chain operations, fuels and transportation
management, security, and contracting operations efforts of military, civilian and
contracted personnel in five geographically separated organizations to support 19,500
personnel and $18 billion in assets.
Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program
The Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program seeks to serve bold leaders from diverse sectors
nationwide, including civilians, veterans and active military.
The Scholars will gather at the George W. Bush Presidential Center to hear from inspiring
leaders such as U.S. Navy Captain and NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy, the United States
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough and retired United States Air Force
General Alfred Flowers, among others. Participants will meet with nationally known
and distinguished professionals, educators and veteran transition and leadership development
experts throughout the five-month program.
Participants were selected after a rigorous application and review process. They join
an active network of more than 170 alumni from four previous classes who are rising
leaders – both veterans and non-veterans – from a wide range of sectors working to
improve veteran outcomes. They hold various leadership roles in business, community
involvement, veteran-serving nonprofits, government and academia; many are active
and reserve military service members.
The program is part of the Bush Institute’s commitment to developing and supporting
effective leaders, and it builds on the organization’s extensive body of work on veteran
transition issues. Each participant joins the program with a personal leadership project,
which allows them to implement what they learn in the program to improve veteran and
military family outcomes across the United States.