Clement Coward

Clement S. Coward Jr. is a retired United States Army major general who has served as the Director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office of the Office of the [Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness] since September 2020. Previously, he served as the Commanding General of the 32nd Army Air and [Missile Defense Command] from November 2018 to August 2020. Raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Coward earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech communications from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1989. He later received a Master of Arts degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College and a Master of Science degree in strategic studies from the United States Army War College.