Maj. General William B. Hickman

Major General William B. Hickman was born in Columbia, Tennessee in the early 1960's. He graduated from Columbia Academy. Hickman earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Vanderbilt University in 1983 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant through the ROTC program. He later earned a master’s degree in business administration from Vanderbilt University and a Master’s Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.

His assignments included: Staff Officer, 75th Ranger Regiment, Ft Benning, Georgia; Executive Officer, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Division; Deployment Operations Officer and Chief Deployment Operations Branch, United States Army Forces Command, Fort McPherson, Georgia; Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 and Director, Plans, Training and Mobilization, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky and Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq; Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq; Executive Officer to the Commander, United States Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida; Commander Bravo Company 3rd Battalion 325th Infantry Regiment (Airborne Combat Team); Commander, 1st Battalion 502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault); Commander 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault); Deputy Commanding General (Support and Operations), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault); Commanding General of Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk, and Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Central, Arifjan, Kuwait. Gen. Hickman retired from the army in 2019.