Maj. Gen. Jonathan Stubbs has been nominated by President Joe Biden to be the next director of the Army National Guard, the Pentagon announced.

If confirmed by the Senate, Stubbs, who has been the adjutant general of Arkansas since January 2023, would receive his third star and succeed Lt. Gen. Jon Jensen, who has led the Army National Guard since August 2020.

A career Army National Guard officer, Stubbs has spent more than 27 of his 29 years in uniform in the Arkansas Army National Guard. After two years as an enlisted soldier in the Tennessee Army National Guard, he commissioned as an infantry officer after completing Officer Candidate School at the Tennessee Military Academy.

Stubbs has held every leadership position within the 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, from rifle platoon leader to brigade commander. He led Company C, 3rd Battalion, 153rd Infantry Regiment in Baghdad from 2004 to 2005 and served as the 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team operations officer in Baghdad in 2008.

He also served as an Active Guard Reserve officer in the Arkansas Army National Guard from 1997 to 2021, where he completed a variety of training and administrative assignments. His last staff assignment was as chief of staff for the Arkansas Army National Guard.

He was promoted to brigadier general in September 2021 and assigned as the vice director of operations at the National Guard Bureau in Arlington, Virginia, with a follow-on assignment in January 2022 as deputy director for operations, readiness and mobilization in the Department of the Army at the Pentagon. In January 2023, he was selected for promotion to major general and appointed by the governor of Arkansas as the state’s 54th adjutant general.