Please clarify your position that Eikenberry was not suitable for the position based on his lack of PhD, other personal qualification or both.
If it is just for PhD, your military analogy has been already disputed.
On the other hand if you believe that a retired military general should be compared to an uneducated man for other personal qualifications, I won’t comment on that.
Irrelevant because it is not Eikenberry who is complaining.
On the other hand, Stevens’s method of challenging as described on the OP article was out of her line and that is what disturbs me.