[Fallschirmjäger]

I wonder if there was an affirmative action angle to her hiring?

Probably not, born 1977 in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, as Annie Sadiyya Khan. Her family moved to the United States when she was a child and she eventually became a citizen. -per Wikipedia.

Served roughly 2 and a half years, between November 2013 and April 2016 even though she had affected tens of thousands of lives and cost the state millions of dollars spent to control the chaos she had willfully created.