HAMPTON, Va. — Jeni Cook, associate director at the National Veterans Administration Chaplain Center in Hampton, Va., recently received the Legion of Honor of the Four Chaplains Bronze Medallion Award for her service as a chaplain.
Cook, who is endorsed by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, was the first female chaplain to become a director of chaplains in the Department of Veterans Affairs Chaplaincy.
George Pickle, the CBF’s chaplaincy specialist, said Cook “was extremely active in initiating a network of female chaplains and has served as a mentor for female chaplains through the VA in a population that has been dominated historically by male chaplains.”