Director of Naval Intelligence, U.S. Navy


The Director of Naval Intelligence serves as the head of Naval intelligence on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations. The Director of Naval Intelligence also serves as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations. The Director of Naval Intelligence is not to be confused with the Office of Naval Intelligence, a Navy Echelon III command that serves as the U.S. Navy's Service Intelligence Center and supports the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and the Director of Naval Intelligence via the Information Warfare Community.
WWW oni.navy.mil

Directors of Naval Intelligence from 1882

Note: Prior to 1911 the head of the ONI was known as the Chief Intelligence Officer.
  1. Lt. Theodorus B.M. Mason
  2. Lt. Raymond P. Rodgers
  3. Cmdr. Charles H. Davis, Jr.
  4. Cmdr. French E. Chadwick
  5. Lt. Frederick Singer
  6. Lt. Cmdr. Richard Wainwright
  7. Cmdr. Richardson Clover
  8. Capt. John R. Bartlett
  9. Cmdr. Richardson Clover
  10. Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee
  11. Cmdr. Seaton Schroeder
  12. Capt. Raymond P. Rodgers
  13. Capt. Charles E. Vreeland
  14. Capt. Templin M. Potts
  15. Capt. Thomas S. Rodgers
  16. Capt. Henry F. Bryan
  17. Capt. James H. Oliver
  18. Rear Adm. Roger Welles Jr.
  19. Rear Adm. Albert P. Niblack
  20. Rear Adm. Andrew T. Long
  21. Capt. Luke McNamee
  22. Rear Adm. Henry H. Hough
  23. Capt. William W. Galbraith
  24. Capt. Arthur J. Hepburn
  25. Capt. Alfred W. Johnson
  26. Capt. Harry A. Baldridge
  27. Capt. William D. Puleston
  28. Rear Adm. Ralston S. Holmes
  29. Rear Adm. Walter S. Anderson
  30. Capt. Jules James
  31. Adm. Alan G. Kirk
  32. Rear Adm. Theodore S. Wilkinson
  33. Rear Adm. Harold C. Train
  34. Rear Adm. Roscoe E. Schuirmann September 1943 – October 1944)
  35. Rear Adm. Leo Hewlett Thebaud
  36. Rear Adm. Thomas B. Inglis
  37. Rear Adm. Felix L. Johnson
  38. Rear Adm. Richard F. Stout
  39. Rear Adm. Carl F. Espe
  40. Rear Adm. Laurence H. Frost
  41. Rear Adm. Vernon L. Lowrance
  42. Rear Adm. Rufus L. Taylor
  43. Capt. Maurice H. Rindskopf
  44. Rear Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey
  45. Capt. Frank M. Murphy
  46. Rear Adm. Frederick J. Harlfinger II
  47. Vice Adm. Earl F. Rectanus
  48. Rear Adm. Bobby Ray Inman
  49. Rear Adm. Donald P. Harvey
  50. Rear Adm. Sumner Shapiro
  51. Rear Adm. John L. Butts
  52. Rear Adm. William O. Studeman
  53. Rear Adm. Thomas A. Brooks
  54. Rear Adm. Edward D. Sheafer, Jr.
  55. Rear Adm. Michael W. Cramer
  56. Mr. Paul Lowell
  57. Rear Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby
  58. Rear Adm. Perry M. Ratliff
  59. Rear Adm. Richard B. Porterfield
  60. Rear Adm. Robert B. Murrett
  61. Rear Adm. Tony L. Cothron
  62. Vice Adm. David J. Dorsett
  63. Vice Adm. Kendall L. Card
  64. Vice Adm. Ted N. Branch
  65. Vice Adm. Jan E. Tighe
  66. Vice Adm. Matthew J. Kohler
  67. Vice Adm. Jeffrey E. Trussler
  68. Hon. Scott Bray
  69. Rear Adm. Steve Parode
  70. Vice Adm. Karl O. Thomas