The Center for Women Veterans has five new members who were appointed by the VA Secretary in late March to VA’s Advisory Committee on Women Veterans.
The panel advises the secretary on issues and programs impacting women Veterans and makes recommendations regarding policy and legislative changes.
Established by Congress in 1983, the Committee shapes the department’s efforts to modernize and provide quality, timely services to the nation’s women Veterans. The new appointees will further enhance the Committee’s level of expertise as it relates to understanding the needs of women Veterans and advising VA in meeting their diverse and evolving needs.
The new members on the VA Advisory Committee on Women Veterans are:
The following Committee members have been reappointed for an additional term:
- Shannon McLaughlin, Sharon, Mass. Active duty, Massachusetts Army National Guard lieutenant colonel.
- Moses McIntosh, Hephzibah, Ga. Retired U.S. Army chief warrant officer 2.
- Wanda Wright, Tempe, Ariz. Retired U.S. Air Force colonel.
More Information
Visit VA’s benefits and services webpage for women Veterans or contact the Women Veterans Call Center (WVCC) at 855-829-6636. The WVCC is available to address women Veterans’ concerns, or those of their families and caregivers, Monday – Friday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Saturday from 8 a.m. t0 6:30 p.m., EST.
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I would like to know what this committee plans to do to REALLY fix the VA and how it treats women veterans. As a woman veteran who has been using the VA for almost 30 years, I have seen NO changes in attitudes towards women veterans. The VA always has been and will always be a “good old boys” network. While the VA can spend $100,000.00 for an exo-skeleton for a MALE veteran so he can have a better quality of life, they won’t even consider implanting an electrical unit in a FEMALE veteran to help get rid of her pain so she can have a better quality of life.
Maybe this committee needs to come up here to the sticks of MAINE, we are still a part of the US, and really talk to women veterans. I heard from several who have the same complaint that this VA treats women veterans poorly.