Pam served over 30 years in the Air Force and Air National Guard, retiring as Lieutenant Colonel. Her last position was Strategic Plans and Policy Joint Director, successfully managing high-level military programs. She managed statewide COVID-19 response efforts across 11 agencies and localities, managed budgets of more than $25.5 million, commanded a 200+-member military squadron, and overhauled inefficient systems to increase productivity and transparency.

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Prior to her military service, she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics and taught high school physics and math in Richmond, Chesterfield and Gloucester County public schools for over a decade.

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She is a small business owner in Gloucester and serves as an elections officer there.

 

She and her husband, Chief Master Sgt. Angus Garner, founded a non-profit with four other couples to provide health and financial literacy seminars, scholarships, and school supplies for local students in the Middle Peninsula.

 

Their daughter Breanna Bowman is a physical therapist.

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