Continuing the discussion from US Navy appoints first female four-star Admiral in its 238-year history:
I think that David Weber may have used her as model for the Manticoran Space Admiral Michelle Henke in his Honor Harrington military space opera series. There are some likenesses between them, at least in my eyes. She’s going strong in the later books of the series and one of the reasons that makes me keep on reading these books despite the lowered quality of some of the later entries in the space epic series…