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Dr. Liz Clark is a member of the Senior Executive Service and serves as the Director of the Defense Support Services Center (DSSC), within the Personnel Readiness Management Agency, Office of the Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness. In this role, she leads a diverse portfolio of programs supporting military and civilian personnel, readiness, quality of life, transition, and reintegration across the Department, including the following mission areas: Combating Trafficking in Persons Program Management Office; Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program; Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support; Defense Language & National Security Education Office; Defense Travel Management Office; Employer Support of the Guard & Reserve; Federal Voting Assistance Program; Investigations and Resolutions Directorate; and the Military-to-Civilian Transition Office (Transition Assistance Program, Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program, SkillBridge). 

Dr. Clark brings more than 26 years of military and federal service. Prior to her current assignment, Dr. Clark served as the Director of the Defense Suicide Prevention Office (DSPO), where she led Department-wide suicide prevention policy, strategy, and oversight supporting more than 2 million Service members and over 2.5 million military family members worldwide. She represented the Department in national suicide prevention initiatives, including contributing to the 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, and strengthened partnerships across federal agencies, academia, and nonprofit organizations to advance prevention policy and research. Dr. Clark previously served as the Deputy Executive Director of the President’s Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End the National Tragedy of Suicide (PREVENTS) Task Force, a White House-led interagency initiative that developed the first federally coordinated public health strategy to prevent Veteran suicide. 

Dr. Clark’s suicide prevention experience also extends beyond government service. For more than a decade, she volunteered as a crisis worker answering the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and served in nonprofit behavioral health Board leadership. She also established and co-led a suicide loss bereavement support group in the Washington Metropolitan area. 

Dr. Clark served as a U.S. Army Officer for more than nine years in the Ordnance Corps and Adjutant General Corps, with assignments at the installation level, Army Staff, and National Guard Bureau. 

Dr. Clark holds a Doctorate of Education from Vanderbilt University in Leadership and Learning in Organizations, a master’s degree from Georgetown University in Human Resources Management, and a bachelor’s degree from McDaniel College in Sociology.