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Carignan served as an instructor at the [[Canadian Army Command and Staff College|Canadian Land Force Command and Staff College]] in [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]], [[Ontario]], before she returned to 5 Combat Engineer Regiment as commanding officer in 2008.<ref name=mil/> Between 2009 and 2010 she commanded the [[Task Force Kandahar]] Engineer Regiment in Afghanistan, being appointed deputy commander of [[5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group]] upon her return.<ref name="maclean" /><ref name=mil/> Carignan was promoted to colonel in June 2011 and appointed chief of staff of [[Joint Task Force Central]]. She was named one of Canada's 100 most powerful women by the Women's Executive Network in 2011. She also received the Major-General Hans Schlup Award for excellence in international relations. In July 2013, Carignan became commandant of the Royal Military College Saint-Jean and in the same year received the Hermès Award for excellence in administration.<ref name=mil/> Carignan introduced sexual conduct training for all officer candidates and also reintroduced ballroom dance classes which had been discontinued in the 1990s.<ref name="maclean" />
Carignan was promoted to brigadier-general on 15 June 2016 and appointed chief of staff of army operations.<ref name=maclean/><ref>{{cite web|title=Brigadier-General Jennie Carignan becomes highest-ranked female officer in the Combat Arms of the Canadian Army – Canada.ca|date = 16 June 2016|url=https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2016/06/brigadier-general-jennie-carignan-becomes-highest-ranked-female-officer-in-the-combat-arms-of-the-canadian-army.html?wbdisable=true|publisher=Government of Canada|accessdate=26 November 2017|language=en}}</ref> She was the first female Canadian general from a combat (as opposed to technical) arm.<ref name=maclean/> Carignan was promoted to the rank of major-general on 15 August 2019 ahead of taking command of a training mission in Iraq.<ref>{{cite news |title=Brigadier-General promoted to Major-General {{!}} CTV News |url=https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/brigadier-general-promoted-to-major-general-1.4547795 |accessdate=6 October 2019 |work=CTV News Montreal |date=13 August 2019}}</ref> She was promoted to lieutenant-general in 2021 upon her appointment to the newly-created position of Chief for Professional Conduct and Culture,<ref>{{cite web |title=Chief, Professional Conduct and Culture |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/organizational-structure/chief-professional-conduct-culture.html |website=canada.ca |date=29 April 2021 |publisher=Government of Canada |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430092110/https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/organizational-structure/chief-professional-conduct-culture.html |access-date=30 April 2021|archive-date=30 April 2021 }}</ref> with the responsibility of preventing sexual assault in the military.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/feds-initiate-independent-review-into-sexual-misconduct-in-the-military-1.5407336|title = Feds initiate independent review into sexual misconduct in the military|date = 29 April 2021}}</ref> On 28 July 2024, it was announced that
== Honours and decorations ==
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