First Sergeant (Retired) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it entered the Army directly after graduating from High School in 1982. She completed Basic Training and Advanced Individual Military Police Training at Fort McClellan, Alabama and went on to successfully complete Basic Airborne Training at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1983.

Throughout her twenty-one year career as a military police officer, 1SG Luce’s leadership positions included team leader, squad leader, platoon sergeant, drill sergeant, senior drill sergeant, instructor, personal security agent, military police assignment manager, operations sergeant and first sergeant. She is a Master Jumpmaster with over 100 military parachute jumps.

Her duty stations included Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort McClellan, Alabama; Stuttgart, Germany; Department of the Army, Alexandria, Virginia; Ft Myers, Virginia; and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. She earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Fayetteville State University, her Masters of Education Degree in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Louisville, and is a Licensed Professional Counseling Associate in the state of Kentucky.

Upon her retirement from the Army in 2003, Ms. Luce spent 7 years in state government service working as an Executive Advisor for the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs and the Women Veterans Coordinator for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Governor Beshear recently appointed her to the Veterans Program Trust Fund Board of Directors. She currently serves her community as a therapist with Shelby Counseling Associates and resides in Shelbyville, Kentucky with her daughters Nichole and Heather.

On May 18, 2011 at the 2011 NASWVC Training Conference Business Meeting in Madison Wisconsin, Luce was elected to the position of First Vice President. Beginning August 1, 2011 Luce steps down as Second Vice President of the association and will assume the position of First Vice President for the Executive Board years 2011 to 2013.