Donna Feigley Barbisch

In 2020, Barbisch was elected to the District of Columbia's Advisory Neighborhood Commission from Ward 2. Her District, Number 2A04 (Foggy Bottom and the West End), includes the Watergate complex, Lincoln Memorial, and Potomac River. She began her term of office on January 2, 2021.

In 2002, Barbisch was promoted to major general. Among her assignments at this rank were military assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs). She retired in 2005, and her awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Army Reserve Components Overseas Training Ribbon, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm, Republic of Vietnam Civil Actions Unit Citation, Vietnam Campaign Medal, and Expert Field Medical Badge.

Barbisch wrote her 1999 doctoral dissertation on chemical, biological and nuclear attacks which centered on four domestic terrorism events. When the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 took place she was in Ankara, Turkey for her civilian employment, briefing State Department personnel on government response in following a terrorist attack.

After her Vietnam service, Barbisch continued her military career on active duty and as a member of the United States Army Reserve. She commanded 350th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Greenville, North Carolina and was Director of Reserve Component Integration Studies at the Army War College's Department of Command, Leadership, and Management. Barbisch later served as the 3rd Medical Command's deputy commander for clinical support, and she was promoted to brigadier general in 1998.

In 1967, Barbisch enlisted in the United States Army and enrolled in a nurse's training program. Two years later, she was assigned to the 91st Evacuation Hospital at Chu Lai Base Area in South Vietnam, where she served for a year.

Donna Feigley Barbisch (born July 14, 1947) is a retired United States Army officer and local elected official in the District of Columbia. A veteran of the Vietnam War, she attained the rank of major general. Barbisch specialized in anti-terrorism preparedness for the Army Reserve while working full-time for the United States Department of State. As a government civilian, she trained both military and civilian government agencies in providing medical support in the wake of terrorist attacks.

Barbisch was born in Dormont, Pennsylvania on July 14, 1947, a daughter of David A. Feigley and Jean (Bower) Feigley. She graduated from Chartiers Valley High School in 1965 and attended the Columbia Hospital School of Nursing in Wilkinsburg.