Meet Our President

President Terrence J. McKenrick

Major General Terrence J. McKenrick is the 22nd President of Georgia Military College, which he assumed on July 1st, 2025.

He served 35 years in the United States Army, retiring on September 1st, 2021. His last four assignments as a Major General included the Deputy Commanding General of V Corps, standing-up the V Corps Headquarters at Fort Knox and the V Corps Forward Headquarters in Poland, from August 2020 to June 2021; the Commanding General of Division East, First Army, with 5 multicomponent Brigades and 52 Battalions distributed across the Eastern U.S., from June 2018 to August 2020; the Deputy Commanding General of U.S. Army Central, leading the Forward Headquarters in Kuwait from May 2017 to June 2018; and the Commanding General of U.S. Army Joint Modernization Command from August 2015 to April 2017.

Other General Officer assignments were as the Deputy Commanding General (Operations) of 1st Armored Division, the Director of U.S. Central Command Forward in Jordan during OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE, the Deputy Director for Operations of the National Military Command Center on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon, and the Chief of Staff of the Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq under the U.S. Embassy Baghdad.

He also served as the Commander of the 192d Infantry Brigade; the Commander of the Warrior Transition Brigade, standing-up the Brigade at Walter Reed Army Medical Center; the Chief of the Joint Operations Center of Multi-National Corps in Iraq during OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM; the Commander of 4th Ranger Training Battalion with a deployment to OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM; the J36 Operations Officer in U.S. European Command; the Executive Officer of 2nd Ranger Battalion; the S1 of the 75th Ranger Regiment; and the Commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company of 25th Infantry Division during OPERATION UPHOLD DEMOCRACY.

His decorations include the Army Distinguished Service Medal (with two Oak Leaf Clusters), the Defense Superior Service Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), the Legion of Merit (with two Oak Leaf Clusters), the Bronze Star Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal (with four oak leaf clusters), the Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge, the Expert Infantryman Badge, the Master Parachutist Badge, the Air Assault Badge, the Pathfinder Badge, and the Ranger Tab. Other awards include the German Gold Activity Badge for Personnel, the German Parachutist Badge, the Canadian Parachutist Badge, and the MacArthur Leadership Award.

He was commissioned as an Infantry Officer from the United States Military Academy at West Point in the Class of 1985 with a Bachelor of Science. He also earned a Master of Arts in Human Resource Management from Hawaii Pacific University with a Professional Certificate in Total Quality Management, and a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University. He attended the Joint Flag Officer Warfighting Course, the Combined/Joint Forces Land Component Commander Course, the Combined Force Maritime Component Commander Course, the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Executive Education Course, and the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School Executive Development Course.

He and his wife, Liz, have two sons, Christian and Justice, a daughter Mariah, and a son-in-law Jake Brown.