Brigadier General Jason (Brad) Nicholson
Special Assistant to the Director of the Army Staff, Headquarters Department of the Army
Brigadier General Jason (Brad) Nicholson is currently serving as Special Assistant to the Director of the Army Staff, Headquarters Department of the Army. He has served in a wide variety of tactical, operational, and strategic assignments in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Commissioned into the Field Artillery in 1998 through the Reserve Officers Training Corps at North Carolina State University, Brigadier General Nicholson studied both history and English. He holds a Master of Policy Management from Georgetown University and is currently a Doctoral Candidate (ABD) in Political Science at the University of Utah.
Brigadier General Nicholson is a foreign area officer for Sub-Saharan Africa and speaks both French and German.