Lt. Col. Amy McGrath, USMC (ret.) is a US Naval Academy graduate who served as a Marine F/A-18 pilot and weapons systems officer with three combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. After her operational flying tours, she served as a Congressional Fellow and in the Pentagon as Marine Corps’ liaison to the State Department and a tour teaching political science at USNA. In 2018 and 2020, she ran U.S. House and Senate races in Kentucky. More recently she founded Honor Bound, Inc. a 501(c)(4) nonpartisan organization committed to leadership development for women with a service background and encouraging those women to run for elected office.