COL Faith Junghahn was commissioned through UNC-CH ROTC, where she was the first nurse to graduate from the program.

She is a retired Army Nurse Corps officer with 25 years of service in multiple assignments as a Public Health Nurse working in primary care, deployment medicine and commanded medical service units at both the battalion and brigade levels.

Her assignments include Active Duty and Reserve units in both the US and Germany. Her last assignment was commanding a Medical Support Unit located in Kaiserslautern Germany. Additionally, during her care she had an assignment working with wounded warriors with the Army Recovery Care Program. In her post-military career, she is working as an infusion nurse and care manager. Faith lives in Holly Springs with her husband, Alan Shaw, LTC USA (ret).