FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (April 29, 2008) The Command and General Staff College Foundation presented Gen. Colin L. Powell (U.S. Army, Ret.) with the Foundation’s first Distinguished Leadership Award at a dinner banquet at the Marriott Muehlebach Hotel April 28.

Powell, the well-known 65th U.S. Secretary of State and the 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is in Kansas City as part of a two-day trip to deliver the inaugural lecture for the Colin L. Powell Lecture Series at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC).