George Fox begins his 11th year with the athletic department overall and was recently promoted to assistant athletic director for equipment operations at Northern Arizona University. His department prepares and implements the equipment budget and coordinates the daily equipment needs for NAU’s 15 intercollegiate sports and 400-plus Lumberjack athletes and coaches. He also oversees the game management and video departments for athletics.

Fox retired from the United States Air Force in 1994 with the rank of Major.  He is a veteran of many campaigns including Urgent Fury (Grenada ‘83), Just Cause (Panama ’89), Desert Shield/Storm (liberation of Kuwait ’90), and Deny Flight (Kosovo ’93). He served as a flight instructor and examiner navigator, and Director of Flight Operations for the 7^th Airborne Command and Control Squadron (7ACCS) at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., from 1989 to 1994. There he coordinated and directed daily flying activities with seven EC-130 aircraft and 150 pilots and aircrew members, including training, current operations, flight management and scheduled maintenance.

From 1985 to 1989, he was the chief of a staff assistance team for headquarters US Air Forces Europe (USAFE) at Ramstein AFB, Germany. He was charged with developing and evaluating headquarters guidance on aircraft command and control issues, including nuclear operations for 15 USAF units throughout Europe. He also spent four years at Pope AFB in North Carolina as a senior command post controller and aircrew member aboard the C-130 Hercules.

Fox began his military career in 1974 with the U.S. Marine Corps as a Naval Flight Officer, flying missions aboard the F-4 Phantom aircraft at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, and as an air-liaison officer assigned to the 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton California, serving seven years before transferring to the Air Force.

Fox graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1974 and earned his master's in aeronautical science from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in 1992.

Now retired from on field officiating, Fox has been an AIA high-school baseball and football official in Arizona and Mississippi for 12 years. His wife, Kathy, works at the International Office on campus. They have two children: son George, who works at W.L. Gore, and daughter Alice, who graduated from NAU in May 2005.