Michael Clancy

FORMER U.S. ARMY COLONEL & CIVIL ENGINEER

Michael Clancy, a native of City Island, is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and was a registered professional civil engineer for 24 years. He earned a BS in engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers in 1993. He earned an MS in Engineering Management from the Missouri University of Science & Technology, an MS in Civil Engineering from Columbia University, and an MA in Strategy from the U.S. Army War College. As an Army officer, he served in six different combat engineer battalions around the world, spending 32 months in Iraq and 13 in Afghanistan, alternating these combat assignments with those in the Corps of Engineers. He served as Project Engineer, Project Manager, Deputy Area Engineer and Deputy District Commander in the New York District. He then went on to command New Orleans District and serve as Executive Director of Civil Works in the Corps’ headquarters in Washington, DC. He spends his time fixing up an old house on City Island, where he lives with his wife, Hailey, CIOR board member.