Emily Jazmin Tatum Perez (19 February 1983 – 12 September 2006) was a female minority Cadet Command Sergeant Major in the United States Military Academy at West Point.Born in Heidelberg, West Germany, of African American and Hispanic parents in a U.S. military family, she graduated from Oxon Hill High School in Maryland, where she ranked among the top-10 students in her class and was wing commander of Junior ROTC.