![A smiling Lloyd Fig Newton wearing a navy blue dress uniform with his four general stars on his shoulders.](/sites/default/files/2021-05/Fig%20Newton%20640x480.png)
Official Portrait of General Lloyd "Fig" Newton. Wikimedia Commons.
(1942-) Ridgeland, SC, native, Lloyd "Fig" Newton is a retired United States Air Force four-star general who served as Commander, Air Education and Training Command from 1997 to 2000. He was also the first African American pilot in the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.