Major General (R) Byron S. Bagby

Major General Byron S. Bagby is a distinguished leader in the Field Artillery branch. During his military career, Maj. Gen. Bagby served as Chief Operating Officer of the Office of Military Cooperation in Cairo, Egypt; Commandant of the Joint Forces Staff College; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, Europe; and assignments to five of the Army’s ten combat divisions, including commander of the 3d Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment in the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). He also served on the faculty/staff at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and in the Pentagon on the Joint Staff and Department of the Army Staff.  He is a veteran of multiple combat deployments.

He earned several military decorations during his service, including two Distinguished Service Medals, four Defense Superior Service Medals, and the Bronze Star Medal. He is also qualified as an Army Ranger and a Master Parachutist.  

Maj. Gen. Bagby is a graduate of Westminster College (B.A., Economics, 1978) and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (M.Ed.-Higher Education, 1987). He and his wife, Monique Hale Bagby, have two adult children and two grandchildren and live in Alexandria, VA.