Barbara Woodbury
Ms. Woodbury serves as President and Trustee of The Navy & Marine Association, a 501 (C) (3) non-profit organization, whose mission is to provide leadership awards to the Commanders of the U.S. Naval Air Forces, U.S. Naval Surface Forces, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Atlantic and Pacific, and the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy for presentation to outstanding service members within their commands; and to provide support to the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Coast Guard communities throughout the world. NMA is an all-volunteer force, whose Officers and Trustees serve without compensation.
Since 1 978, Ms. Woodbury has served as Managing Director of Trans World Assurance Company, an insurance underwriter specializing in life insurance designed for U. S. military personnel around the world. Trans World is an underwriter of the SGLI program covering all military members.
Ms. Woodbury has worked extensively with the wounded and the families of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for this country.
She is a director of a financial holding company with subsidiaries in life insurance underwriting and commercial real estate development.
Following graduation from the University of Mississippi with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education, Ms. Woodbury began her business career in commercial banking. In her early twenties, at the height of the Vietnam War, she managed a branch bank on a naval air facility in Pensacola.
Upon moving to San Diego in the early 1 970’s, Ms. Woodbury became Director of Advertising for San Diego’s largest locally owned commercial bank.
The daughter of two U.S. Marine Corps officers, who served in WWII, she has spent a good deal of time with military personnel around the world….which has included a practice bombing mission in an F-14; an in-flight refueling and tail hook in an S-3; at-sea visits aboard aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and submarines; and in the field with Marines.
Ms. Woodbury has been an active participant at the Current Strategy Forum at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, She is an Honorary Frogman and also is a proud member of the Tailhook Association, an organization comprised of those who have landed in an aircraft aboard an aircraft carrier. In 2001 , she received the first Honorary Tailhooker of the Year award.
In 2002, General James L. Jones, Jr., the Commandant of the Marine Corps officially conferred upon her the title of “Honorary Marine”; and in 2005, the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, SgtMaj John Estrada, and his enlisted Marines honored Ms. Woodbury with a parade at the lwo Jima Memorial in Washington, DC.
Ms. Woodbury also serves on the National Honorary Advisory Board of the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the San Diego Humane Society, the President’s Council of Scripp’s Clinic and
Research Foundation, a former member of the Board of the Friends of the Home Commandants, the AIRPAC Historical Foundation, the Tailhook Education Foundation, the Advisory Board of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Command Museum Foundation, the National Advisory Board of the Flying Leathernecks Historical Foundation, and the Board of Directors of the National Naval Avjatlon Museum Foundation in Pensacola, Florida. She was instrumental in forming San Diego’s first Fleet Week and is also a member of The Marine Corps Aviation Association, The Naval Order of the United States, Southwest Commandery, and is a lifetime member of the Naval War College Foundation.
She is passionate about photography and about supporting all those who defend and protect America.