UAH, Cherokee heritage help inspire life of leadership at Boeing in engineering alumnus Robert Green

Today, Robert Green is senior director for Boeing’s Integrated Air & Missile Defense portfolio, supporting systems as vital as the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3), Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense and Avenger. But it’s been a long road to achieving his current status. In fact, the alumnus of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has never benefitted from an easy path in life.

“We were very poor, and I had a tough childhood,” Green says. “But I learned my work ethic from my father, Carroll Lynn Green, who worked very hard. I was motivated to have a better life for myself and, if God was to bless me with one, my family.”

By Russ Nelson

UAH engineering alumna, Robert Green.