Alenka Ermenc

Alenka Ermenc, born in 1963, is an officer in the Slovenian army and the first woman to be promoted to the rank of brigadier in the Slovenian Armed Forces. Promoted with effect 13 May 2011, she was formally promoted by Defence Minister, Ljubica Jelusic, on 15 May of the same year at the central event in Cerklje on the 20th anniversary of the Slovenian Armed Forces.

In January 2006 she commanded of the newly created 5. Intelligence and Reconnaissance Battalion of the Slovenian Armed Forces, becoming the first woman commander of a battalion of the Slovenian Armed Forces. In May 2009, she served as became head of personnel of the General Staff of the Slovenian Army before a six-month deployment to Kosovo as part of KFOR, commencing in June of the same year.