Kay Hartzell


Kay Lynn Hartzell 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.