Lieutenant General Thomas W. Spoehr

Lieutenant General Spoehr assumed duty as the Director, Army Office of Business Transformation, Office of the Under Secretary of the Army, on 17 July 2013. In this capacity, he assists the Under Secretary of the Army in his role as the Army’s Chief Management Officer to improve the business processes and information technology that drive the Army. Prior to this assignment, he served as the Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation, Headquarters, Department of the Army, G-8, from February 2012 to July 2013. Prior assignments included Deputy Commanding General (Support), United States Forces-Iraq, responsible for assisting the Commanding General in the areas of Support, Transition and Retrograde, and as the Director of Force Development, Headquarters, Department of the Army, G-8, from 2009-2011. Other assignments have included service as the 24th Chief of Chemical and the Commandant of the U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear School, Fort Leonard Wood. Lieutenant General Spoehr commanded the 3rd Chemical Brigade at Fort Leonard Wood and at the Battalion and Company levels. He has also served on staff assignments ranging from a Combatant Command to Battalion level. His military education includes the Army War College class of 2000, Joint Professional Military Education Phase II, Army Command and General Staff College, Combined Arms and Services Staff School, and Basic and Advanced Chemical Officer Courses. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1980 and a Master of Arts in Public Administration from Webster College, St. Louis, Missouri. LTG Spoehr will celebrate his 33rd wedding anniversary this year. He and his wife, Cynthia, have two children: Catherine (29), who lives with her husband, David, and son, James Augustus, and newborn daughter, Caroline, in Fairfax City, Virginia, and Peter (24) who is assigned to the 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Germany.