Leah Santiago becomes first female PMA graduate to earn general’s star

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The first female summa cum laude graduate of the PMA and its first woman Commandant of Cadets adds another first, 33 years after entering the Academy with its pioneering batch of women

PROMOTED. The Superintendent, PMA, Lieutenant General Michael Logico PA (right) welcomes the newly promoted Commandant of Cadets, Brigadier General Leah Santiago PA at the Lim Hall Lobby.

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BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – Thirty-three years after entering the Philippine Military Academy with its first batch of female cadets, Leah Lorenzo Santiago has become the first woman PMA graduate to reach the rank of brigadier general.

Santiago formally donned her one-star rank on November 9 at Camp Aguinaldo, less than a month after becoming the PMA’s first female Commandant of Cadets and head of the Tactics Group on October 17.

The Academy rendered arrival honors for her at Fort Del Pilar the following day.

Her promotion puts another first beside a name already written several times into PMA history.

Santiago entered the Academy in 1993, the year PMA began admitting women under Republic Act 7192, or the Women in Development and Nation Building Act.

She graduated with the KalasagLahi Class of 1997, the first PMA class to include women. Santiago finished third overall and first academically, becoming the Academy’s first female summa cum laude graduate.

Commissioned into the Philippine Army, she went on to serve in infantry, field artillery, personnel management, and military education assignments.

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