Colonel Maurer was one of eight out of 800 officers to be recognized on the Joint Staff and one of only 15 officers selected from the Air Force as a National Defense Fellow. Maurer was appointed Adjunct Research\ Fellow/Affiliate at the J.F.K. School of Government at Harvard. \

She spent 23 years in the military serving in the communications field and has received eight personal military awards. She served 10 years in Europe prior to the end of the Cold War. Colonel Maurer received a master’s in human relations from the University of Oklahoma and attended three professional military schools. She has authored a book on Coalition Command Control that is used as course material for military education in both the U.S. and its allied countries.

She graduated from CCHS in only three years and was class Salutatorian.