Cheryl Partee has taken over as the chief of the Business Resource Division and Chief Financial Officer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Southwestern Division. The Business Resources Division is responsible for the direction and control of financial, manpower and other resources. It involves budgeting, finance and accounting, force development, management engineering and operations research. The focus is on the wise and legal acquisition, allocation, accountability and use of money, plant and people resources.
Partee was the Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Washington D.C., responsible for the headquarters staff operations and policies associated with a $45 billion construction and service enterprise with more than 34,000 employees across the world. Prior to this role, she was the Budget Officer for Southwestern Division in Dallas, responsible for a multi-year/multi-million dollar budget that serviced the Division’s diverse civil and military funding requirements.
"Ms. Partee’s experience at Headquarters USACE, combined with her previous experience here at SWD, will allow her to expertly manage the Division's finances and resources,” said Brig. Gen. David C. Hill, commander, SWD. “We welcome the skill and expertise that she brings to our Division.”
She has more than 30 years of civilian service experience in resource and program management and has served in several domestic and international assignments with the Army, Navy, Air Force and Defense Contract Management Agency. Prior to her work with USACE, she was the Senior Budget Analyst with Naval Facilities Engineering Command-Southern Division directly responsible for a multi-faceted facilities engineering budget encompassing several appropriations. Partee also served as financial and cost analysts for the Air Force in the areas of budget and economic analysis. She gained extensive international experience from her time with Defense Contract Management Agency-Pacific. In this role, she led a diverse, multi-functional resource management team of U.S. civilians and foreign nationals geographically dispersed throughout seven different countries.
She earned her Bachelor of Science degree magna cum laude from Limestone College, Gaffney, S.C., and earned both a Master of Business Administration and an Executive Master of Public Administration degree from Syracuse University.
She is the recipient of the 2010 National Women of Color Award for Professional Achievement in Government. She is a graduate of the Defense Comptrollership Program, the Navy Leadership Program and is a Certified Defense Financial Manager with Acquisition Specialty and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Partee is an active member of several professional organizations: Army Engineer Association, American Society of Military Comptrollers, Society of American Military Engineers, Association of Syracuse Defense Comptrollers, National Black MBA Association and the National Defense Industrial Association.