Lieutenant Commander Michelle M. Foster
District 13 Station Program Manager
United States Coast Guard
Lieutenant Commander Michelle Foster graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 2007 and developed broad experience as a response officer. She served two years as a desk watch officer and boarding officer on a 270-foot cutter; directed search and rescue in Virginia and North Carolina for three years; and oversaw program response for two 87-foot cutters, aids-to-navigation boats, and surf stations in California while also acting as command center chief.
From 2015 to 2018, she was commanding officer of Station Cape May, District Five’s largest station with two seasonal station smalls--Fortesque and Townsend’s Inlet. She is qualified on six boat asset types, as well as coxswain of the jet-drive 45-foot response boat medium.
At District 13, Lieutenant Commander Foster oversees small boat/station operations and pollution response across Washington and Oregon, and she is adding air operations oversight duties for three air stations. She holds a master's degree in national security studies and is working through JPME Phase I as well as attending pollution courses.