Leadership Lessons Featuring Colonel (R) Christopher Cox

Colonel (R) Christopher Cox Cox

Colonel (R) Christopher Cox “Chris” has served across the globe in a host of leadership positions. This includes three deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, Battalion and Brigade Command, and assignment to the Pentagon and the United States Military Academy. Chris attended Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, majoring in Theoretical Computer

Science. Chris is also a graduate of the Command and General Staff College and the Army War College Fellows Program at Carnegie Mellon. Chris holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.



Chris’ awards and decorations include: the Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Bronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Meritorious Service Medal with Silver Oak Leaf Cluster, the Army Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Joint Service Achievement Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Army Achievement Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Meritorious Unit Award with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Army Superior Unit Award, the

Joint Meritorious Unit Award, the Ranger Tab, the Combat Action Badge, the Parachutists Badge, the Air Assault Badge, the German Efficiency Badge (Bronze), and the Army Staff Identification Badge. Chris is also a member of the National Honor Society for Public Administrators.