Cedric T. Wins

Cedric T. Wins
15th Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute
Assumed office
November 13, 2020
Interim: November 13, 2020 – April 15, 2021
Preceded byJ. H. Binford Peay III
Personal details
Born
Cedric Terry Wins

Hyattsville, Maryland, U.S.
EducationVirginia Military Institute
National War College
Florida Tech
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/serviceUnited States Army
Years of service1985–2019
RankMajor general

Cedric Terry Wins[1] is a retired U.S. Army general officer. Major General Wins was the last commander of RDECOM, in the U.S. Army Materiel Command, and the first commanding general (CG) of Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), in the combat development element of U.S. Army Futures Command. In all, some 13,000 people work in some Science and Technology (S&T), or (RDT&E— research, development, test, and evaluation) capacity for DEVCOM.[2]

On November 13, 2020, Wins was appointed interim superintendent of Virginia Military Institute.[3] On April 15, 2021, the VMI Board of Visitors voted unanimously to appoint him as the Institute's 15th superintendent, the first African American to hold the position in the Institute’s 181-year old history.[4]

  1. ^ Bomb Yearbook. Lexington, Virginia: Virginia Military Institute. 1985. p. 292. Retrieved January 13, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ MAJ GEN Cedric T. Wins, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (September 10, 2019) DEVCOM'S road map to modernizing the Army: air and missile defense
  3. ^ "2020-2021 - News - Virginia Military Institute". www.vmi.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  4. ^ "2020-2021 - News - Virginia Military Institute". www.vmi.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-15.

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