Edwin S. Livingston III
Senior Consultant

Ed recently retired from the Army National Guard. His last assignment was the Chief, Resource Management, Army National Guard, National Guard Bureau. He began his military career as an enlisted man in the Marine Corps. He served with the First Marine Division in Vietnam as an infantryman and as a combat engineer. After eight years as an enlisted man Ed graduated from the Michigan Military Academy and was commissioned a second lieutenant.

In April 1983 then Captain Livingston entered the Active Guard Reserve (AGR) Program and was assigned as an Assistant Professor of Military Science at Widener University, Chester Pennsylvania. In June 1985 he was assigned to National Guard Bureau and promoted to major and served in the Office of Plans, Program Analysis and Evaluation as a personnel analyst, and in June 1988 he became the Branch Chief of Programs and Analysis.

In January 1990 Ed was promoted and selected to command the lst Battalion, 225th Infantry in Detroit Michigan. After a successful command he returned to the National Guard Bureau and became the Branch Chief of both Budget Execution and the National Guard Personnel Army Budget Formulation Branch.

Ed was promoted to colonel and became the division chief of the Program and Budget Division in 1995. In 1997 he became the Chief Resource Management Officer for the Army National Guard and served in that position until his retirement.

Colonel Livingston received his bachelor's degree from Widener University in Business Administration (Magna cum Laude). His Master of Management from Central Michigan University, and his Master of Arts in Industrial Relations from Wayne State University. He earned his Certified Financial Planner designation in 1996.