Kay Hartzell
# Kay Hartzell

Kay Lynn Hartzell (6 September 1948 — 26 February 2016) was a United States Coast Guard officer, notable for being the first female commanding officer of an isolated U.S. military base, when she assumed command of the Coast Guard LORAN/Omega station on the island of Lampedusa, Italy, in 1979, as a lieutenant. Hartzell retired in 1993 at the rank of commander.

She was survived by her wife Lane McClelland, her mother, and her brother.

