Senior Master Sergeant Nora Lemmon is the Superintendent of the Air National Guard Band of the West Coast, with over thirty years of military service. SMSgt Lemmon graduated from the Senior NCO Academy in Montgomery, Alabama, and was awarded Senior Non-commissioned Officer of the year for 2005.
SMSgt Lemmon's musical pursuits outside of the military include ten years with the Ohlone College Wind Band in Fremont, California, as a clarinetist, and she currently holds the position of Quality Control Administrator with a major Bay Area telecommunications company.