Colonel Mike Colvard, USAF (ret), returns for his third year on the Samuel V. Champion High School team after 35 years of military service as our Air Force JROTC Senior Aerospace Science Instructor. He and his wife Cheryl, of 36 years, both graduated from Converse Judson High School and are excited to be back in the great State of Texas. They have four adult children; Nicole, an elementary school teacher, Matthew, an Airborne Ranger Infantry Officer in the US Army, Ashleigh, an elementary school teacher, and Alyssa, a junior at Texas Tech University. They also have three amazing grandchildren. 

Colonel Colvard enlisted in the Air Force in 1986 and served as a Precision Measurement Equipment Specialist for the first 10 years of his career while he completed his bachelor’s degree at Wayland Baptist University primarily through evening courses after duty hours. He attended Officer Training School and received his commission as a Second Lieutenant in 1996.  Colonel Colvard lived in 13 different locations across the US and Europe and deployed to 14 different foreign countries in Europe, Asia and Africa.  As a career Aircraft Maintenance Officer, he spent seven years in Command leading four different combat-coded units.  He also worked on staff at three headquarters, including 3-years at the Pentagon, serving on the Headquarters Air Force staff as the functional manager for his career field.

Colonel Colvard's last assignment concluded in May of 2021, where he served as the 2nd Bomb Wing's Maintenance Group Commander leading 2,000 Airmen comprised of three Squadrons maintaining 27 B-52 Stratofortress Bombers executing combat missions across the world from 2018-2021.