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Born July 22, 1944, black American Bunnatine H.
Greenhouse grew up in a
segregated Louisiana cotton town. She credits her
parents, who barely
finished grade school, with her deep religious
convictions and dogged
pursuit of excellence in every endeavor. Greenhouse and her three siblings epitomize their
parents' teachings.
Greenhouse, a successful civilian employee with the US
Army Corp of
Engineers and mother of three, sings in her church choir
every Sunday. Her
two sisters earned doctorate degrees and her brother,
Elvin Hayes, was a NBA
all-star.
Named one of the Outstanding Young Women of America in
1975, Greenhouse
graduated Magna Cum Laude from Southern University with a
Bachelor of
Science in Mathematics. In addition to holding three
Master of Science
degrees, i.e., Business Management (University Central
Texas), Engineering
Management (George Washington University), and National
Resources Strategy
(National Defense University), Greenhouse has
successfully completed several
Defense Department management and acquisition courses.
Greenhouse is a former Vice President of the Heidelberg-Ramstein
Chapter of
the National Contract Management Association, a member of
the Project
Management Institute, the Armed
Forces Communications and Electronic Association, and she
served on the
Board of Directors of
the Defense Systems Management College Alumni
Association. She is a member
of the Army
Acquisition Corps and she has achieved Level III
Acquisition Professional
Certifications in
Contracting, Program Management and
Communications-Computer Systems.
The wife of a military procurement officer, Greenhouse
taught high school
and college mathematics in various states (1965-1981)
prior to entering
government service as a civilian.
Since joining the US Army Directorate of Contracting in
Fort Hood, Texas as
a Procurement
Intern, she has risen through the civilian ranks and
received a number of
appointments commensurate with her training and academic achievements. In
1997, Greenhouse received her current appointment as the
Principal Assistant
Responsible for Contracting with the US Army Corps of
Engineers. It is in her current position that Greenhouse finds
herself at odds with the
status quo in how the Corps of Engineers awards contracts
through a "good ole boy" network. A
stickler for the rules and determined to protect the
public trust,
Greenhouse challenged no-bid contracts awarded to
Halliburton and its
subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root in the Balkans and
Iraq. Her efforts to
expose the rules' violations have led to the promise of
an inquiry by the
Pentagon and a FBI investigation. In the meantime, the
Corps is working
overtime to either demote or retire Greenhouse, who is
determined to remain
on a job she does well. (Sources:
http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepr/asp/walking/parc.asp and
www.nytimes.com and
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7606-2004Oct28.html)
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