Rick and Theresa Boucher of Eastsound have announced the promotion of their daughter Jenny Boucher to the rank of 1st Lt. in the U.S. Army.

A graduate of Orcas Island High School, Boucher did her undergraduate work in Spokane, Wash. at Whitworth University and Washington State University. The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program at Gonzaga University coordinated with those two schools and the Intercollegiate School of Nursing to prepare Boucher for a career as an army nurse.  She was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. the summer of 2010. She now resides in San Antonio, Texas where she serves both veterans and the civilian population at Brooke Army Medical Center located at Fort Sam Houston.