Major General William D. Razz Waff assumed the duties of Commanding General of the 99th Regional Support Command on October 1, 2010. Prior to his current duty assignment, MG Waff was the Deputy Commanding General of the US Army Human Resources Command, with offices at Fort Knox, K.Y., Alexandria, Va., and St. Louis, Mo. As the Commanding General of the 99th RSC, Gen Waff is responsible for administrative, logistics and facilities support to more than 51,000 Army Reserve Soldiers in 439 units at 328 U.S. Army Reserve centers and 33 maintenance facilities in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont and Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. Gen Waff began his military career by attending the Virginia Military Institute and later the University of Mississippi, graduating magna cum laude in 1976 with a bachelor of music degree. He was commissioned through the Ole Miss ROTC program as a Distinguished Military Graduate in the Regular Army as a Second Lieutenant in the Adjutant General’s Corps. While on active duty for four years at Fort Jackson, S.C., he was an Advanced Individual Training Company Executive Officer and Battalion Adjutant, 11th Battalion, 4th Advanced Individual Training Brigade. He also served as the Fort Jackson Headquarters Company Executive Officer and later as Commander; and as the Executive Officer/Adjutant of the Military Enlistment Processing Station located at Fort Jackson. As an Army Reserve Soldier, Gen Waff has served as Training Officer of the 477th Personnel Service Company, Forest Park, Ill., and as Executive Officer of the 479th Personnel Service Company at Fort Sheridan, Ill. He has also served as the Administrative/Logistics Officer in the Composite Branch, 85th Division Maneuver Training Command (MTC) and as Chief, Personnel Services, of the MTC. He then served as the Chief, Strength Management Office, of the 85th Maneuver Exercise Command (MEC) from 1989-1992. In 1992, he became the Assistant G1 (Recruiting) for the 1st Brigade, 85th Division at Fort Sheridan, before being named G1 (Personnel) in 1994. Gen Waff was selected for battalion command in 1997 as Commander of the 1485th Logistics Support Battalion, located in Arlington Heights, Ill. In 1999, he was appointed as the Director of the Simulations Branch, Battle Projection Group, 1st Brigade, 85th Division, Arlington Heights, Ill., a position he held until his selection for command of the Second Simulation Exercise Group, 1st Brigade (BCST), 85th Division (Training Support), Fort Sheridan, Ill., in May 2000. After a successful command tour, he was then selected in June 2002 to serve as the Chief of Staff of the 88th Regional Readiness Command, Fort Snelling, Minn, where he served until February 2005, when he was selected for promotion to Brigadier General to serve as the Deputy Commanding General of the 99th Regional Readiness Command, Coraopolis, Pa. Gen Waff completed the Adjutant General’s Corps Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Army Medical Officer Advanced Course and the Senior Officer Transportation Advanced Course. He also completed the Command and General Staff College (Resident-RC), the Army War College’s Reserve Component National Security Issues Seminar, the Army War College’s Defense Strategy Course and the Army War College’s Senior Service College Course (Distance Education), being awarded the Master of Strategic Studies degree in 2001. He is also a graduate of the Department of Defense Modeling and Simulations Officer Course. His decorations include the Legion of Merit with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Meritorious Service Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Army Achievement Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal with the Gold Hourglass Device, The Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal with Bronze Service Star, the Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, the Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal with seven Oak Leaf Clusters and the Army Service Ribbon. He has also received a Master of Divinity degree from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill., in 1983, and a doctorate in medical ethics through a joint venture of the Graduate Theological Foundation and Georgetown University in 1997.

John U. Sepulveda was nominated by President Obama to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration for the Department of Veterans Affairs and subsequently confirmed by the Senate on May 18, 2009. He was sworn in by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Eric K. Shinseki, on May 20, 2009. As Assistant Secretary and VA’s Chief Human Capital Officer, Mr. Sepulveda serves as principal advisor to the Secretary, his executive staff, and the Department’s human resources managers and practitioners on matters pertaining to human resources; labor-management relations; diversity management and equal employment opportunity; resolution management; employee health and safety; workers’ compensation; and VA Central Office administration. Mr. Sepulveda brings over 25 years of experience as an innovative leader in the public and private sectors. As Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) during the Clinton Administration, Mr. Sepulveda led various initiatives to promote greater diversity throughout the U.S. Government, including increasing the representation of Latinos within the Federal workforce. While at OPM, he served on the White House Interagency Task Force on Asian American and Pacific Islanders, the President’s Council for Y2K Conversion, and the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency. He recently served on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team as an advisor to the OPM agency review team. Before joining OPM, Mr. Sepulveda successfully managed a $5 billion portfolio of federally-insured hospital mortgages at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He also led efforts to restructure and reengineer several major programs within the Federal Housing Administration. From 1996-1997, he worked at the White House in the Office of Presidential Personnel. Since 2004, Mr. Sepulveda has served on a special panel advising the Director of National Intelligence and various intelligence agencies on human capital and diversity policy issues. For the past several years, he worked as a senior executive in the housing finance industry. Before coming to Washington, D.C., in 1993, Mr. Sepulveda held various local and state executive and appointed positions in Connecticut. Early in his career, he taught political science at Hunter College and Yale University. A native of New York City, Mr. Sepulveda holds two Masters degrees from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College.