| Name |
Term of Office |
| • William Shepherd Benson |
May 11, 1915 – Sept. 25, 1919 |
| • Robert Edward Coontz |
Nov. 1, 1919 – July 21, 1923 |
| • Edward Walter Eberle |
July 21, 1923 – Nov. 14, 1927 |
| • Charles Frederick Hughes |
Nov. 14, 1927 – Sept. 17, 1930 |
| • William Veazie Pratt |
Sept. 17, 1930 – June 30, 1933 |
| • William Harrison Standley |
July 1, 1933 – Jan. 1, 1937 |
| • William Daniel Leahy |
Jan. 2, 1937 – Aug. 1, 1939 |
| • Harold Raynsford Stark |
Aug. 1, 1939 – Mar. 26, 1942 |
| • Ernest Joseph King |
Mar. 26, 1942 – Dec. 15, 1945 |
| • Chester William Nimitz |
Dec. 15, 1945 – Dec. 15, 1947 |
| • Louis Emil Denfeld |
Dec. 15, 1947 – Nov. 1, 1949 |
| • Forrest Percival Sherman |
Nov. 2, 1949 – July 22, 1951 |
| • William Morrow Fechteler |
Aug. 16, 1951 – Aug. 17, 1953 |
| • Robert Bostwick Carney |
Aug. 17, 1953 – Aug. 17, 1955 |
| • Arleigh Albert Burke |
Aug. 17, 1955 – Aug. 1, 1961 |
| • George Whalen Anderson, Jr. |
Aug. 1, 1961 – Aug. 1, 1963 |
| • David Lamar McDonald |
Aug. 1, 1963 – Aug. 1, 1967 |
| • Thomas Hinman Moorer |
Aug. 1, 1967 – July 1, 1970 |
| • Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr. |
July 1, 1970 – July 1, 1974 |
| • James L. Holloway III |
July 1, 1974 – June 30, 1978 |
| • Thomas B. Hayward |
July 1, 1978 – June 30, 1982 |
| • James D. Watkins |
July 1, 1982 – June 30, 1986 |
| • Carlisle A.H. Trost |
July 1, 1986 – June 30, 1990 |
| • Frank B. Kelso II |
July 1, 1990 – Apr. 23, 1994 |
| • Jeremy Michael Boorda |
Apr. 23, 1994 - May 16, 1996 |
| • Jay L. Johnson |
Aug. 2, 1996 – July 21, 2000 |
| • Vern Clark |
July 21, 2000 – 22 July 2005 |
| • Michael G. Mullen |
July 22, 2005 – 29 Sept. 2007 |
| • Gary Roughead |
Sept. 29, 2007 – Sept. 23, 2011 |
| • Jonathan Greenert |
Sept. 23, 2011 – Present |
