Michael E. Kicklighter

Michael E. Kicklighter
Michael E. Kicklighter (MS 05)
Chief of Construction/Chief of Planning & Real Property
U.S. Coast Guard Civil Engineering Unit

CEEAA Young Alumni Achievement Award, 2014

For effective leadership and management to meet unanticipated conditions encountered by the U.S. Coast Guard and for exceptional administration of numerous mission-critical Coast Guard planning, real property and construction projects.

Biography

Michael E. Kicklighter graduated from Merritt Island High School, in Florida, in 1994.  He attended the Coast Guard Academy and graduated in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. He then served two years as an engineering officer and Damage Control Assistant on the 378-foot Coast Guard Cutter MIDGETT and three years at the Coast Guard Marine Safety Office in Port Arthur, Texas. 

Kicklighter attended the University of Illinois as part of the Coast Guard’s advanced education program from 2003 to 2005, earning a Master of Science in Civil Engineering and a Master of Business Administration.  He then served as a designer and as a construction manager at the Coast Guard Civil Engineering Unit in Providence, Rhode Island, followed by assignments as the Planning and Real Property Branch Chief and Chief of Construction at the Coast Guard Civil Engineering Unit in Miami, Florida. 

Currently, Kicklighter is the Facilities Engineer at the Coast Guard Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Alabama, where he resides with his wife, Tina, of 12 years and his two kids, Tyden, 8, and Reese, 5.