Holly Petraeus

Holly Petraeus
Born July 1952 (age 64)
Paris, France
Alma mater Dickinson College
Occupation Assistant Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

Hollister (Holly) K. Petraeus (née Knowlton; born July 17th, 1952) is an Assistant Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), heading up the Office of Servicemember Affairs.[1] Her work centers around educating service members on sound financial management and protecting them against predatory lending and cons. She is the wife of retired General David Howell Petraeus.

Early life

Holly Petraeus was born in Paris, France into a military family. Her father, General William Allen Knowlton, was a United States Army four-star general, and a former Superintendent of the United States Military Academy.

Career and education

Petraeus graduated summa cum laude from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA in 1974, with Honors in French. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[2]

Petraeus spent six years as the Director of BBB Military Line, a program of the Council of Better Business Bureaus providing consumer education and advocacy for service members and their families. She helped develop the curriculum now used to educate service members in sensible financial management.[3][4]

In 2011, Elizabeth Warren appointed Petraeus to be Assistant Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, leading the Office of Servicemember Affairs. The office partners with the Pentagon to see that military families receive a strong financial education; monitors their complaints to the CFPB; and coordinates efforts of federal and state agencies regarding consumer protection measures for military families.[5]

Petraeus writes extensively for the CFPB’s blog, with 50+ published articles as of July, 2016.[6] She has also been published in the New York Times, writing about exploitable clauses in the Higher Education Act that incentivize private for-profit colleges to see service members as “dollar signs in uniform” and recruit them aggressively.[7] She is frequently interviewed in regards to her work, and has served as a public speaker at events like the National Conference of State Legislature’s 2013 Legislative Summit.[8][2]

Petraeus has appeared before several Congressional committees in her role at the CFPB in order to increase U.S. lawmakers’ awareness of the financial difficulties facing military service members.[9][10]

Honors and awards

Honorary degrees

Awards

Personal life

Petraeus comes from a family known for a history of military service. Her great-great grandfather fought in the Civil War and the Indian Wars; her great-grandfather was a brigadier general who fought in the Spanish-American War and World War I; her grandfather served in both World Wars, earning a Silver Star in the first and rising to lieutenant colonel in the second. Her father, William Knowlton, was a retired four-star general and NATO commander. He was also superintendent of the United States Military Academy.[17]

In 1974, she married the now retired General David Howell Petraeus, whom she met when he was a cadet at the United States Military Academy.[18][19] They have a daughter and a son and reside in the Washington, D.C., area.

References

  1. ↑ "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau structure". Retrieved July 18, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "National Conference of State Legislatures Q&A". August 12, 2013.
  3. ↑ Shahien Nasiripour; Chris Kirkham (January 4, 2011). "Holly Petraeus To Be Elizabeth Warren's Pick For Top Post In New Consumer Protection Agency". Huffington Post.
  4. ↑ Tamara Keith (April 25, 2011). "Holly Petraeus: An Army Wife Takes Command". NPR.
  5. ↑ Elizabeth Warren (January 6, 2011). "Welcoming Holly Petraeus to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Implementation Team". The White House.
  6. ↑ "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau blog". Retrieved July 18, 2016.
  7. ↑ Hollister K. Petraeus (September 21, 2011). "For-Profit Colleges, Vulnerable G.I.'s". New York Times.
  8. ↑ Jana Kasperkevic (March 16, 2014). "Holly Petraeus: 'Some people don't balk at taking advantage of veterans'". The Guardian.
  9. ↑ Holly Petraeus (November 3, 2011). "Testimony of Hollister K. Petraeus before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs". Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
  10. ↑ Holly Petraeus (November 20, 2013). "Hollister K. Petraeus Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation". Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
  11. ↑ "Beacon of Ethics award recipients" (PDF). Retrieved July 18, 2016.
  12. ↑ J.D. Leipold (May 24, 2013). "Three Army heroes honored by PenFed Foundation". U.S. Army.
  13. ↑ Army News Service (May 8, 2014). "Vice chief, wife named recipients of Easter Seals Advocacy Awards". U.S. Army.
  14. ↑ "Daughters of the American Revolution Convene in Washington, D.C. 121st Continental Congress held in DAR Constitution Hall" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: Daughters of the American Revolution. June 27, 2012. Retrieved July 18, 2016.
  15. ↑ "The HillVets 100 of 2014". Veteran Tickets Foundation. February 5, 2015.
  16. ↑ The Women's Center Leadership Conference 2014, archived from the original on July 13, 2015, retrieved July 18, 2016
  17. ↑ Rick Hampson (March 19, 2012). "Holly Petraeus makes her own mark on the military". USA Today.
  18. ↑ "Hollister Knowlton Betrothed To David H. Petraeus, a Cadet". New York Times. May 12, 1974. Retrieved July 18, 2016.
  19. ↑ "Who is Holly Petraeus?". HLN. August 6, 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/4/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.