Gen. Norris Overton

Norris W. Overton retired from the United States Air Force in 1981 with the rank of Brigadier General after completing more than 32 years of active duty military service. His distinguished career included such noteworthy assignments as Comptroller, Pacific Air Forces; Comptroller, United States Air Force Academy; Financial Staff Officer, Headquarters United States Air Force, Washington, D.C.; Comptroller, 7th Air Force, Vietnam; Associate Professor Aerospace Studies, University of Iowa; and Air Force Plant Representative at the Curtis Wright Corporation.

His final assignment was Vice Commander Army Air Force Exchange Service, where he managed all activities for a 60,000-employee organization with 16,000 retail outlets worldwide, serving 6.5 million military service members and Department of Defense employees. His operation was the seventh largest retail operation in the U.S., with annual sales of more than $3.8 billion.

Since Gen. Overton's retirement from the Air Force, he has held senior management positions in business ranging from Vice President of Information Systems to Vice President and Chief Financial Officer with the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), where he retired in 1996. His third career was as Director of Business Development for Radcor Technology, Inc. in Bethesda, Md. He continues to serve on the firm Board of Directors of two other organizations.

Gen. Overton is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration's Advanced Management Program and earned an MBA from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a BS in business administration from Indiana University.