Phone: 703-607-1822

Brigadier General Annette L. Sobel
Director, J-2
Brigadier General Annette L. Sobel was appointed Director of the New Mexico Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Deputy Secretary for Emergency Services for the Department of Public Safety by Governor Bill Richardson . General Sobel is also the Director of Intelligence, National Guard Bureau. Her work has emphasized Weapons of Mass Destruction information analysis, and technology transition to field operational environments and advanced tactical aircraft. Prior to her current assignment, she served as National Guard Assistant for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Civil Support to the Chief, National Guard Bureau, after entering the National Guard as state air surgeon, Headquarters New Mexico Air National Guard. General Sobel entered the United States Army in July 1986 as a second lieutenant and was assigned as the director of Undergraduate Medical Education in the Department of Family Medicine, Womack Army Community Hospital, Ft Bragg, North Carolina. She later served as commander, United States Army Medical Holding Company. She served as the officer-in-charge of the 44th Medical Brigade Field Hospital during Operation Just Cause, Panama. She subsequently joined the Air National Guard in 1991, where she was assigned as the chief, Aerospace Medicine, 178th Medical Squadron, Ohio Air National Guard, Ohio. She has also commanded the 178th Medical Squadron, Ohio Air National Guard and the 150th Medical Squadron, New Mexico Air National Guard, New Mexico.