Bill Montgomery

I was born in Washington, DC. My father was USNA ’42 and we moved up and down the East Coast with his orders to various commands, plus a year in Southern California. I graduated from high school in Alexandria, VA and received a presidential nomination to the Academy. 

I graduated with First Company, selected Naval Aviation and flew the E-2C Hawkeye, including a tour with a squadron based in Japan aboard USS Midway (CV-41).  Another highlight was a four-year tour in Belgium with the NATO Airborne Early Warning Programme, working with the multinational-crewed NATO AEW Force. 

I retired from the Naval Air Systems Command in 1995 and was a project manager and study director with Whitney, Bradley & Brown, Inc., an engineering and technical services consulting firm in Reston, VA. WBB was acquired by Serco, Inc. in 2021.

 I am a graduate of USNA, the Defense Systems Management College and The George Washington University Executive MBA Program.  I am also skipper of the Association of Naval Aviation’s Washington-Anacostia Squadron and vice president of The Love Quilt Project, a nonprofit that provides educational and emotional support to South African and American children living in foster care.  

 My wife Patricia and I live in Fairfax, VA. We have a daughter, Jacqueline, in New York City and a vizsla, Molly, who resides with us. For my 70th birthday, Jacqueline and I did a 70-mile bike ride around Northern Virginia. We attend St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Arlington, VA, where I’m involved in various mission projects.  The St. Peter’s Pedalers often ride our bikes the 140 miles to our annual parish retreat. 

I was one of five participants in the Class of 1973 Ride-2-Remember to symbolically gather our deceased classmates back to the Academy for our 50thClass Reunion. I look forward to supporting the Class of 1975 in the Gulf-2-Goat ride