During a recent Women's History Month celebration, a leading organization for companies that rely on aviation aircraft to make their businesses more efficient, posted the photo of Lieutenant Chanel Lee, a U.S. Coast Guard Academy alumna and a Coast Guard pilot.
Lee is only the second Black female helicopter pilot in the history of the Coast Guard, and one of five African American women pilots in the Coast Guard. (Photo credit: U. S. Coast Guard (PO3 Ashley Johnson)
The 2019 photo above shows all of them at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site. L-R: Lieutenant Commander Jeanine Menze, Lieutenant Commander La’Shanda Holmes, Lieutenant Angel Hughes, LT Chanel Lee, and Lieutenant Ronaqua Russell.
During the last week of July 2020, Lee reportedly celebrated another milestone.
According to CBS 6 News, a local station in Richmond, Virginia, the pilot became Lieutenant Commander Chanel Lee at a ceremony attended by family and friends.
The TV station said that Lee just completed a tour in San Diego where she served as assistant engineering division chief and dealt with, among other things, the Southern California wildfires and the 2018 mudslides.
