Women in the United States Navy

| Women worked as nurses for the navy during the American Civil War.

| The Navy Nurse Corps was established; it was all-female until 1965.

| Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels announced that the navy would enlist women on 17 March.{{cite web|url= http://www.history.navy.mil/special%20highlights/women/timeline1.htm|title= Women's Milestones in Naval History|publisher=history.navy.mil|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140729185656/http://www.history.navy.mil/special%20highlights/women/timeline1.htm|access-date=12 July 2014|archive-date= 29 July 2014}}

| Loretta Perfectus Walsh became the first woman to enlist in the navy on 17 March.

| President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Public Law 689 creating the navy's women reserve program (the WAVES) on 30 July 1942.

| Lieutenant Commander Mildred H. McAfee, USNR, director of the WAVES, became the navy's first female line officer.

| Navy Lieutenant, junior grade Ann A. Bernatitus became the first American recipient of the Legion of Merit. She was also the first person authorized to wear the "V" Device with the award.

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| Susan Ahn Cuddy, a Korean-American, became the first Asian-American woman to join the Navy.

| Lieutenant Harriet Ida Pickens and Ensign Frances Wills were commissioned as the first African-American female navy officers.

| Sue Dauser, the director of the Navy Nurse Corps, became the first female captain in the navy.[https://archive.today/20140110223346/http://www.history.navy.mil/special%20highlights/women/timeline1.htm Milestones of Women in the US Navy]. History.navy.mil. Retrieved on 25 July 2014.

| The first Black woman sworn into the Navy Nurse Corps was Phyllis Mae Dailey, a Columbia University student from New York, on 8 March 1945. She was the first of only four Black women to serve as a Navy nurse during World War II.

| Jane Kendeigh became the first Navy flight nurse in an active combat zone, serving at Iwo Jima.{{Cite web|url=https://www.midway.org/blog/navy-flight-nurses-in-world-war-ii|title=USS Midway Museum®|website=www.midway.org}}

| Mildred H. McAfee became the first woman to receive the Navy Distinguished Service Medal."WAVE Director Presented Award", Reno Evening Gazette, 7 November 1945, p. 1

| The Women's Armed Services Integration Act ({{USStatute|80|625|62|356|1948|06|12}}) is a United States law that enabled women to serve as permanent, regular members of the armed forces, including the Navy. Prior to this act, women, with the exception of nurses, served in the military only in times of war. However, Section 502 of the act limited service of women by excluding them from aircraft and vessels of the Navy that might engage in combat.

| On 15 October 1948, the first eight women were commissioned in the regular Navy: Joy Bright Hancock, Winifred Quick Collins, Ann King, Frances Willoughby, Ellen Ford, Doris Cranmore, Doris Defenderfer, and Betty Rae Tennant took their oaths as naval officers.

| Yeoman Anna Der-Vartanian was the first woman in the navy promoted to master chief petty officer, and the first woman in the armed services promoted to E-9.{{cite web|last=Daniel|first=Amber |url=http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=64075 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805090729/http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=64075 |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 August 2012 |title=Navy's First Female Master Chief Petty Officer Laid to Rest at Arlington |publisher=Navy.mil |date=30 November 2011 |access-date=4 December 2011}}

| Lieutenant Charlene I. Suneson became the first line WAVES officer to be ordered to shipboard duty.[https://archive.today/20140714232703/http://www.history.navy.mil/special%20highlights/women/timeline2.htm Milestones of Women in the US Navy]. History.navy.mil. Retrieved on 25 July 2014.

| Public Law 90-130 was signed into law; it removed legal ceilings on women's promotions that had kept them out of the general and flag ranks, and dropped the two percent ceiling on officer and enlisted strengths for women in the armed forces.{{cite web|url=http://uscode.house.gov/statutes/pl/90/130.pdf |title=Public Law 90-130-Nov. 8, 1967|publisher=house.gov |date=8 November 1967 |access-date=26 August 2017}}

|Roseanne Roberts became the first female helicopter plane captain in the Navy.{{Cite news|title=Valencia County Newspaper, Roseanne Robert's hometown, 1972.|last=Roseanne|first=Roberts|date=1972|via=Printed newspaper}}{{cite web |last1=Freeman |first1=Tatyana |title=Women in the Navy: WAVES to Wins |url=https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/2239356/women-in-the-navy-waves-to-wins/ |publisher=U.S. Navy |access-date=2 August 2021 |date=19 March 2019}}

| Alene Duerk became the first female admiral in the navy.

| Frontiero v. Richardson, {{ussc|411|677|1973}}, was a landmark Supreme Court case which decided that benefits given by the military to the family of service members cannot be given out differently because of sex.

| Lieutenant Junior Grade Barbara Ann (Allen) Rainey became the first navy woman to earn her wings on 22 February 1974.{{cite web|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/special%20highlights/women/timeline2.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140714232703/http://www.history.navy.mil/special%20highlights/women/timeline2.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 July 2014|title=Milestones of Women in the US Navy|publisher=history.navy.mil|access-date=12 July 2014}}

| The first women were commissioned through NROTC.{{cite web|url=http://www.usna.edu/PAO/documents/Womens_History_Poster.pdf|date=5 March 2014|title=Celebrating Character Courage & Commitment – Women's History Month 2014|access-date=12 July 2014}}

| Schlesinger v. Ballard, {{Ussc|419|498|1975|el=no}}, was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld a federal statute granting female naval officers four more years of commissioned service before mandatory discharge than male Naval officers.Varat, J.D. et al. Constitutional Law Cases and Materials, Concise Thirteenth Edition. Foundation Press, NY: 2009, p. 583 A federal statute granted female Naval officers fourteen years of commissioned service while allowing only nine years of commissioned service for male Naval officers before mandatory discharge. The Supreme Court held that the law passed intermediate scrutiny equal protection analysis because women, excluded from combat duty, had fewer opportunities for advancement in the military. The Court found the statute to directly compensate for the past statutory barriers to advancement.Varat, p. 583

| Fran McKee became the navy's first female unrestricted line flag officer.{{cite book|first1=Robert J.|last1=Martin|first2=Joe B.|last2=Havens|title=Chief: The Evolution, Development and Role of the Chief Petty Officer in the United States Naval Service|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7d7rSjH0sA8C&pg=PA41|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Turner Publishing Company|isbn=978-1-56311-248-5|pages=41–}}

| Navy Nurse Joan C. Bynum became the first Black woman promoted to the rank of captain.

| Judge Sirica ruled the law banning navy women from ships to be unconstitutional in the US District Court for the District of Columbia case Owens v. Brown.

| Congress approved a change to Title 10 USC Section 6015 to permit the navy to assign women to fill sea duty billets on support and noncombatant ships.

| Lieutenant Lynn Spruill became the first female navy pilot qualified to land on aircraft carriers.{{cite book|first=Sheila Griffin|last=Llanas|title=Women of the U.S. Navy: Making Waves|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wls2WgPZsFQC&pg=PP12|date=1 January 2011|publisher=Capstone|isbn=978-1-4296-5448-7|pages=12–}}

| The first woman in the navy to qualify as a surface warfare officer did so this year.{{cite web|url=http://www.navygirl.org/navywomen/navy_women_history_page.htm |title=Navy Women History Page |publisher=Navygirl.org |access-date=26 July 2015}}

| The first women graduated from the United States Naval Academy. There were 81 women in the class of 1980 at the Naval Academy, and 55 of them graduated. Elizabeth Belzer was the first female graduate and Janie L. Mines was the first Black female graduate.

| Kristine Holderied became the first female valedictorian of the Naval Academy.{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1985/08/12/naval-academy-valedictorian-of-1984-goes-back-to-school/8d2947ff-e69a-46bd-9b41-8bd043b488ee/ |title=Naval Academy Valedictorian Of 1984 Goes Back to School |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=12 August 1985 |access-date=29 July 2015}}

| Rear Admiral Marsha J. Evans became the first woman to command a Naval Station.{{cite web|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/special%20highlights/women/timeline3.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140714232713/http://www.history.navy.mil/special%20highlights/women/timeline3.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 July 2014|title=Milestones of Women in the US Navy|publisher=history.navy.mil|access-date=12 July 2014}}

| Lieutenant Commander Darlene Iskra became the first navy woman to command a ship, {{USS|Opportune|ARS-41}}.{{cite web|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp-stories/loc.natlib.afc2001001.03482/|title=Darlene M. Iskra collection: Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)|publisher=lcweb2.loc.gov|access-date=12 July 2014}}

| The Tailhook scandal occurred, in which Navy (and Marine Corps) aviators were accused of sexually assaulting 83 women (and 7 men) at the Tailhook convention in Las Vegas.{{cite web|last=Shalal |first=Andrea |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-marines-sexualassault-idUSBRE88913O20120910 |title='Tailhook' cleaned up, but top Marine sees more work to stop sex assaults |publisher=Reuters |date=10 September 2012 |access-date=15 August 2015}}

| Before the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy was enacted in 1993, lesbians and bisexual women (and gay men and bisexual men) were banned from serving in the military.{{cite web|url=https://prezi.com/ytivn4zvwnrv/military-service-should-be-based-on-conduct-not-sexual-orie/|title=Military Service Should Be Based On Conduct, Not Sexual Orientation|publisher=prezi.com |first=Elizabeth|last=Hoffman|date=28 March 2003 |access-date=15 January 2014}} In 1993 the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy was enacted, which mandated that the military could not ask servicemembers about their sexual orientation.Craig A. Rimmerman [https://books.google.com/books?id=Go9XsJ47GswC&pg=PA249 Gay rights, military wrongs: political perspectives on lesbians and gays in the military], Garland Pub., 1996 {{ISBN|0815325800}} p. 249Thompson, Mark. (28 January 2008) [https://web.archive.org/web/20080131092438/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1707545,00.html 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Turns 15]. TIME. Retrieved on 2010-11-30. However, until the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy was ended in 2011, service members (including but not limited to female service members) were still expelled from the military if they engaged in sexual conduct with a member of the same sex, stated that they were lesbian, gay, or bisexual, and/or married or attempted to marry someone of the same sex.Richard A. Gittins [https://books.google.com/books?id=ENpnS9KApu8C&pg=PA215 The Military Commander & the Law], DIANE Publishing, 1996 {{ISBN|0788172603}} p. 215

| On Nov. 15, 1994, Navy Lt. Kimberly “Face” Dyson became the first female pilot to fly an official combat mission for the American military.

| {{USS|Benfold|DDG-65}} was the first destroyer to be built to accommodate women.

| Patricia Tracey became the first female three-star officer (vice admiral) in the navy.{{cite book|title=Women at War: Gender Issues of Americans in Combat|author=Skaine, R.|date=1999|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786481736|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7f3FsHJ89NEC}}

| CDR Maureen A. Farren became the first woman to command a combatant ship in the navy, {{USS|Mount Vernon|LSD-39}}.

| Lillian Fishburne became the first African-American woman promoted to flag rank in the navy.

| Susan Livingstone served as the first female Acting United States Secretary of the Navy from January 24 to February 7 of 2003. Although this is a civilian position, it is included in this article because the Secretary of the Navy is the civilian leader of the Navy (and the Marine Corps).

| Carol M. Pottenger became the first woman to command an expeditionary strike group in the navy.

| The first pregnant midshipman graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 2009. While regulations expressly forbade this, the woman was able to receive a waiver from the United States Department of the Navy.[http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/07/navy_pregnant_midshipman_071709w/ "Pregnant midshipman was granted rare waiver"]. Navy Times.

| Nora Tyson became the first woman to command a carrier strike group in the navy.{{cite web|last=Charlier|first=Tom|title=Memphian becomes first woman to command naval carrier strike group|url=http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/aug/01/admiral-tyson-aboard/|publisher=The Commercial Appeal|access-date=5 October 2010|date=1 August 2010}}

|Martha E.G. Herb became the first woman Navy deep sea diver and member of the EOD community to be promoted to flag rank in the Navy.{{cite web|title=Women Divers: Part of the Navy Team|publisher=United States Naval Undersea Museum|location=Keyport, Washington|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/museums/keyport/WomenDivers/Wdivers5.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925051613/http://www.history.navy.mil/museums/keyport/WomenDivers/Wdivers5.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 September 2012|access-date=November 23, 2019}}

| The "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy was ended in 2011, thus putting an end to service members (including but not limited to female service members) being expelled from the military if they engaged in sexual conduct with a member of the same sex, stated that they were lesbian, gay, or bisexual, and/or married or attempted to marry someone of the same sex.

| The first group of female submariners in the navy completed nuclear power school and officially reported on board two ballistic and two guided missile submarines in November 2011.

| Commander Monika Washington Stoker became the first African American woman to take command of a navy missile destroyer.{{cite web|url=http://myfox8.com/2012/02/24/first-black-woman-to-command-navy-missile-destroyer-is-from-greensboro/|title=First black woman to command navy missile destroyer is from Greensboro | MyFOX8.com|date=25 February 2012|publisher=myfox8.com|access-date=12 July 2014}}

|Five "Tigertails" of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron One Two Five (VAW-125), embarked aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier {{USS|Carl Vinson|CVN-70}} as part of Carrier Air Wing Seventeen (CVW-17), flew an historic flight on 25 January when they participated in the navy's first all-female E-2C Hawkeye combat mission.{{cite web|url=http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=65011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805053756/http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=65011|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 August 2012|title=Historical All-Female Flight Takes Place Aboard USS Carl Vinson|first=Rosa A.|last=Arzola|publisher=navy.mil|access-date=12 July 2014}}

|On 22 June 2012, a sailor assigned to {{USS|Ohio|SSGN-726}} became the first female supply officer to qualify in submarines in the navy. Lt. Britta Christianson of Ohio's Gold Crew received her Submarine Supply Corps "dolphins" from the Gold Crew Commanding Officer Capt. Rodney Mills during a brief ceremony at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF).

|On 5 December 2012, three sailors assigned to {{USS|Maine|SSBN-741}} and {{USS|Wyoming|SSBN-742}} became the first female unrestricted line officers to qualify in submarines in the navy. LTJG Marquette Leveque, a native of Fort Collins, Colorado, assigned to the Gold Crew of Wyoming, and LTJG Amber Cowan and LTJG Jennifer Noonan [ROTC Cornell University], a native of Scituate MA, both of Maine's Blue Crew received their submarine "dolphins" during separate ceremonies at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga., and Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Wash.

| Robin Braun became the first female commander of the Navy Reserve, making her the first female three star aviator and the first woman to lead any Reserve component of the military.{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/13/navy-reserves-1st-female-commander-takes-charge/ |title=Navy Reserve's 1st female commander takes charge |work=Washington Times |date=13 August 2012 |access-date=8 September 2013}}

| Michelle J. Howard became the first female four-star admiral in the navy.

| Jan E. Tighe became the first woman to command a numbered fleet when she assumed command of the navy's Tenth Fleet on 2 April 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.doncio.navy.mil/CHIPS/ArticleDetails.aspx?ID=5257|title=Vice Adm. Jan E. Tighe, first female commander of a numbered fleet in U.S. Navy history, talks about information warfare |publisher=Navy.mil|work=CHIPS Magazine |date=24 July 2014|access-date=27 February 2017}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| In July 2014, Marine Corps Captain Katie Higgins became the first female pilot to join the Blue Angels, the navy's flight demonstration squadron. She piloted the team's KC-130 Hercules support aircraft, "Fat Albert."{{cite web|url=http://www.flyingmag.com/news/first-female-pilot-joins-blue-angels|title=Female Pilot Joins Blue Angels |work=Flying|first=Stephen|last=Pope|date=24 July 2014|access-date=24 July 2014}}

| Nora Tyson was installed as the commander of the navy's Third Fleet, making her the first woman to lead a navy operational fleet.{{cite web|first=Abbey |last=Gibb |url=http://fox5sandiego.com/2015/07/24/first-woman-to-lead-navy-fleet-takes-over/ |title=First woman to lead Navy Fleet takes over |publisher=FOX5 San Diego |date=24 July 2015 |access-date=25 July 2015}}{{cite web|last=Steele |first=Jeanette |url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/jul/24/tyson-third-fleet-change-command-swift/ |title=1st woman at helm of U.S. ship fleet |work=SanDiegoUnionTribune.com |date=30 July 1965 |access-date=25 July 2015}}

| Cheryl Hansen became the first female commander of the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport, Mississippi.{{cite web |url=http://www.wxxv25.com/news/local/story/Change-of-Command-at-Gulfport-NCBC/dLH58MQuXk-mW1Q2SJkaeg.cspx |title=Change of Command at Gulfport NCBC |publisher=WXXV25 |date=30 July 2015 |access-date=5 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810184811/http://www.wxxv25.com/news/local/story/Change-of-Command-at-Gulfport-NCBC/dLH58MQuXk-mW1Q2SJkaeg.cspx |archive-date=10 August 2015 |url-status=dead }}

| In December 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter stated that starting in 2016 all combat jobs would open to women.

| In March 2016, Defense Secretary Ash Carter approved final plans from military service branches and the U.S. Special Operations Command to open all combat jobs to women, and authorized the military to begin integrating female combat soldiers "right away."

| In August 2016, Dominique Saavedra became the first enlisted female sailor to earn her submarine qualification.

| In 2019, Capt. Tamara Lawrence, a spokeswoman for Naval Special Warfare, confirmed that an anonymous woman completed the SOAS Navy Seal screening, but was afterwards transferred to another section of the Navy as she had not listed the SEALs as her first choice of military branch to serve with.{{cite web|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/for-first-time-a-woman-has-successfully-finished-demanding-u-s-navy-seal-officer-screening-program|title=For the first time, a woman has completed the demanding U.S. Navy SEAL officer test|first=Ross|last=Andersen|work=The National Post|date=2019-12-18|access-date=2020-04-07}} Lawrence also revealed that the woman who managed to complete the training was among five women who participated in the Navy SEAL SOAS training program as well and that this woman was awarded membership in the Navy branch of her choosing for completing the training.

|In July 2021, the first woman graduated from a Naval Special Warfare (NSW) assessment and selection pipeline to become a Special Warfare Combatant craft Crewman (SWCC). The SWCC directly supports the SEALs and other commando units, and are experts in covert insertion and extraction special operations tactics.

|In November 2023, Admiral Lisa Franchetti became the first female Chief of Naval Operations and, consequently, the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.{{Cite web|url=https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-navy/2023/11/02/senate-finally-confirms-adm-franchetti-as-navys-top-officer/|title=Senate finally confirms Adm. Franchetti as Navy's top officer|first=Geoff|last=Ziezulewicz|date=2 November 2023|website=Defense News}}

|At some point in a deployment that lasted from October 2023 until July 14, 2024, a woman in the Navy's Strike Fighter Squadron 32 (VFA-32) became the first American female pilot to engage and kill an air-to-air contact.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dvidshub.net/news/476139/strike-fighter-squadron-vfa-32-returns-deployment|title=Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 32 Returns from Deployment|website=DVIDS}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/pilot-becomes-first-us-woman-score-air-to-air-kill-2024-7|title=Super Hornet pilot who battled the Houthis became 1st US female aviator to score an air-to-air kill, Navy says|first=Rebecca|last=Rommen|website=Business Insider}}

|Yvette M. Davids began serving as the first female Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy on 11 January 2024.{{Cite web |title=VADM Davids Confirmed As Superintendent At Naval Academy |url=https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/3643662/vadm-davids-confirmed-as-superintendent-at-naval-academy/https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/3643662/vadm-davids-confirmed-as-superintendent-at-naval-academy/ |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=United States Navy |language=en-US}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/higher-education/making-history-vice-adm-yvette-davids-becomes-first-woman-and-person-of-color-to-lead-naval-academy-CIIQ7VOLTNBTVOTQJWOV5DGLCQ/|title=Yvette Davids becomes first woman and Latina to lead Naval Academy|first=Royale|last=Bonds|date=January 12, 2024|website=The Baltimore Banner}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/04/21/yvette-davids-us-naval-academy-superintendent/ | title=Rear admiral picked to be first female leader of U.S. Naval Academy | newspaper=The Washington Post | first1=Nick | last1=Anderson | first2=Karina | last2=Elwood | date=2023-04-21}}

| {{sort name|Michelle J.|Howard}}

| 1982 (USNA)

| Vice Chief of Naval Operations

| style="text-align:center;"| 2006

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| style="text-align:center;"| 2017

| First woman to earn fourth star in the US Navy.

| {{sort name|Patricia A.|Tracey|Patricia Ann Tracey}}

| 1970

| Director, Navy Staff, N09B, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

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| style="text-align:center;"| ?

| style="text-align:center;"| 1996

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| style="text-align:center;"| 2004

| First woman to earn third star in the US Navy.

| {{sort name|Ann E.|Rondeau}}

| 1974 (OCS)

| President, National Defense University

| style="text-align:center;"| 1999

| style="text-align:center;"| 2002

| style="text-align:center;"| 2005

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| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

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| {{sort name|Nancy Elizabeth|Brown}}

| 1974 (OCS)

| Director for C4 Systems (J6)

| style="text-align:center;"| 2000

| style="text-align:center;"| 2003

| style="text-align:center;"| 2006

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2009

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| {{sort name|Carol M.|Pottenger}}

| 1977 (NROTC)

| Deputy Chief of Staff for Capability and Development, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation

| style="text-align:center;"| 2003

| style="text-align:center;"| 2007

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

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| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

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| {{sort name|Nanette M.|DeRenzi}}

| 1984 (OIS)

| Judge Advocate General of the Navy

| style="text-align:center;"| 2009DeRenzi never held the rank of rear admiral (lower half) (O-7). She was promoted from captain (O-6) to rear admiral (O-8) when she assumed the duties of Deputy Judge Advocate General in 2009.

| style="text-align:center;"| 2009

| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

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| style="text-align:center;"| 2015

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| {{sort name|Robin|Braun}}

| 1980

| Chief of Navy Reserve/Commander, Navy Reserve Force

| style="text-align:center;"| 2007

| style="text-align:center;"| 2011

| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

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| style="text-align:center;"| 2016

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| {{sort name|Nora W.|Tyson}}

| 1979 (OCS)

| Commander, US Third Fleet

| style="text-align:center;"| 2007

| style="text-align:center;"| 2011

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2017

| First woman to command a carrier strike group.

| {{sort name|Jan E.|Tighe}}

| 1984 (USNA)

| Commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command, Commander U. S. 10th Fleet

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2018

| First female IDW flag officer. First woman to command a numbered fleet.

| {{sort name|Nancy A.|Norton}}{{cite web|url=http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=715|title=Nancy A. Norton|publisher=navy.mil}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| 1987 (OCS)

| Commander, Joint Forces Headquarters - Department of Defense Information Network (JFHQ-DODIN); Director of the Defense Information Agency (DISA) {{cite web|url=https://www.disa.mil/NewsandEvents/2018/Change-of-Command|title=Norton assumes command of JFHQ-DODIN and directorship of DISA|publisher=disa.mil}}

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| style="text-align:center;"| 2016

| style="text-align:center;"| 2018

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| style="text-align:center;"| 2021

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| {{sort name|Fran|McKee}}

| 1950

| Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel for Human Resource Management

| style="text-align:center;"| 1976

| style="text-align:center;"| 1978

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| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1981

| First woman line officer promoted to flag rank in the United States Navy. Second woman promoted to flag rank in the United States Navy

| {{sort name|Roberta L.|Hazard}}

| 1960

| Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel, Personnel Readiness and Community Support 1989–1992

| style="text-align:center;"| 1984

| style="text-align:center;"| 1989

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1992

| First woman to command a navy training command (NTC San Diego 1982).

| {{sort name|Marsha J.|Evans}}

| 1967

| Superintendent of the Naval Postgraduate School 1995–1998

| style="text-align:center;"| 1992

| style="text-align:center;"| 1996

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1998

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| {{sort name|Joan Marie|Engel}}

| 1969

| 18th Director, Navy Nurse Corps 1994–1998

| style="text-align:center;"| 1994

| style="text-align:center;"| 1997

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2000

| 18th Director, Navy Nurse Corps.

| {{sort name|Barbara E.|McGann}}

| 1970 (OCS)

| Provost, Naval War College 2000–2002

| style="text-align:center;"| 1994

| style="text-align:center;"| 1998

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2002

|

| {{sort name|Ronne|Froman}}

| 1970

| Director, Ashore Readiness, Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, D.c. 2000 – 2001

| style="text-align:center;"| 1995

| style="text-align:center;"| 1999

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2001

| First woman commander of Navy Region Southwest (aka "Navy Mayor of San Diego"), 1997–2000.

| {{sort name|Bonnie Burnham|Potter}}

| 1975 (OIS)

| Fleet Surgeon, U.S. Atlantic Fleet 1999–

| style="text-align:center;"| 1997

| style="text-align:center;"| 2000

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2003

| First female physician to become a flag officer in the military.

| {{sort name|Kathleen|Paige}}

| 1971

| Program Director, Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense 2003–2005

| style="text-align:center;"| 1996

| style="text-align:center;"| 2001

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2005

|

| {{sort name|Karen A.|Harmeyer}}{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

| 1975

| Chief of Staff, Chief of Naval Operations, N093R, Washington, D.C.

| style="text-align:center;"| 1997

| style="text-align:center;"| 2001

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2002

| 1st female two-star in the Reserves.

| {{sort name|Kathleen L.|Martin}}

| 1973 (OIS)

| Deputy Surgeon General of the Navy/ Vice Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 2002–2005

| style="text-align:center;"| 1998

| style="text-align:center;"| 2001

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2005

| 19th Director of the Navy Nurse Corps from August 1998 to August 2001. First Nurse Corps officer to be assigned to the position of Deputy Surgeon General of the Navy.

| {{sort name|Annette E.|Brown}}

| 1974 (OCS)

| Commander, Navy Region Southeast (2002)

| style="text-align:center;"| 1999

| style="text-align:center;"| 2003

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2005

|

| {{sort name|Linda J.|Bird}}

| 1974 (OCS)

| Director, Supply, Ordnance and Logistics Operations Division, N41 2003–2005

| style="text-align:center;"| 1999

| style="text-align:center;"| 2002

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2005

|

| [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=221 {{sort name|Elizabeth M.|Morris|nolink=y}}]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| 1973 (OIS)

| Deputy Chief for Reserve Affairs at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 2005–2006?

| style="text-align:center;"| 2001

| style="text-align:center;"| 2004

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2006

|

| {{sort name|Nancy J.|Lescavage}}

| 1972 (OIS)

| Senior Health Care Executive Regional Director, TRICARE Regional Office – West

| style="text-align:center;"| 2003

| style="text-align:center;"| 2005

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2009

| 20th Director of the Navy Nurse Corps.

| {{sort name|Donna L.|Crisp}}

| 1974 (OCS)

| Commander, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command

| style="text-align:center;"| 2001

| style="text-align:center;"| 2006

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

|

| [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=122 {{sort name|Ann D.|Gilbride|nolink=y}}]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| 1978 (OCS)

| Director, National Maritime Intelligence Center

| style="text-align:center;"| 2003

| style="text-align:center;"| 2006

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2009

|

| [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=243 {{sort name|Sharon H.|Redpath|nolink=y}}]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| 1976 (NROTC)

| Vice Commander, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, Commander, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group

| style="text-align:center;"| 2003

| style="text-align:center;"| 2006

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2009

|

| {{sort name|Elizabeth A.|Hight}}

| 1977 (OCS)

| Vice Director, Defense Information Systems Agency

| style="text-align:center;"| 2003

| style="text-align:center;"| 2006

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| First woman to Command the JTF-GNO, after serving as its Deputy Commander. First woman Vice Director at DISA.

| {{sort name|Christine|Bruzek-Kohler}}

| 1974

| Commander, Navy Medicine West, Naval Medical Center San Diego

| style="text-align:center;"| 2004

| style="text-align:center;"| 2007

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| 21st Director of the Navy Nurse Corps.

| [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=151 {{sort name|Christine S.|Hunter|nolink=y}}]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| 1980

| deputy director, TRICARE Management Activity

| style="text-align:center;"| 2004

| style="text-align:center;"| 2007

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2011

|

| {{sort name|Wendi B.|Carpenter}}

| 1977 (AOCS)

| Commander, Navy Warfare Development Command, Norfolk

| style="text-align:center;"| 2004

| style="text-align:center;"| 2008

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2011

| First female naval aviator promoted to Flag rank.

| {{sort name|Karen|Flaherty}}

| 1973 (OIS)

| Deputy Surgeon General of Navy Medicine

| style="text-align:center;"| 2003

| style="text-align:center;"| 2008

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

| 22nd Director of the Navy Nurse Corps.

| [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=363 {{sort name|Moira N.|Flanders|nolink=y}}]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| 1978 (OCS)

| Director, Inter-American Defense College

| style="text-align:center;"| 2005

| style="text-align:center;"| 2008

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2012 

|

| [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=362 {{sort name|Kathleen M.|Dussault|nolink=y}}]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| 1979 (OCS)

| Director, Supply, Ordnance and Logistics Operations Division (OPNAV N41)

| style="text-align:center;"| 2006

| style="text-align:center;"| 2009

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

|

| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070612234742/https://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=393 {{sort name|Janice M.|Hamby|nolink=y}}]

| 1980 (NROTC)

| Vice Director for C4 Systems (J6)

| style="text-align:center;"| 2006

| style="text-align:center;"| 2009

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

|

| [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=496 {{sort name|Elizabeth S.|Niemyer|nolink=y}}]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| 1981

| Director, Navy Nurse Corps

| style="text-align:center;"| 2008

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| 23rd Director of the Navy Nurse Corps

| [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=387 {{sort name|Patricia E.|Wolfe|nolink=y}}]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| 1981 (NROTC)

| Commander, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group (NAVELSG)

| style="text-align:center;"| 2007

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

|

| [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=486 {{sort name|Cynthia A.|Covell|nolink=y}}]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| 1980 (OCS)

| Director, Total Force Requirements Division (OPNAV N12)

| style="text-align:center;"| 2008

| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

|

| {{sort name|Margaret D.|Klein}}

| 1981 (USNA)

| Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Military Professionalism

| style="text-align:center;"| 2008

| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2017

| 82nd Commandant of Midshipmen, USNA – first woman.

| {{sortname|Sandy|Daniels}}

| 1980 (USNA)

| Senior Advisor for Space to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance (OPNAV N2/N6)

| style="text-align:center;"| 2007

| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2015

|

| {{sort name|Katherine L.|Gregory}}

| 1982 (USNA)

| Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Chief of Civil Engineers

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2015

| First female CEC admiral.

| {{sort name|Elizabeth L.|Train}}

| 1983 (OCS)

| Director, National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office, Commander, Office of Naval Intelligence

| style="text-align:center;"| 2009

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2016

|

| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101205155211/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=615 {{sort name|Paula C.|Brown|nolink=y}}]

| 1982

| Deputy Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Deputy Chief of Civil Engineers

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2016

|

| {{sort name|Elaine C.|Wagner}}

| 1984

| Deputy Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Wounded, Ill and Injured

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2017

| Chief of the Naval Dental Corps, 2010 – 2017

| {{sort name|Althea|Coetzee}}

| 1985 (USNA)

| Deputy Director, Contingency Contracting, Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy (DPAP), OSD (Acquisition Technology & Logistics)

| style="text-align:center;"| 2011

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2017

|

| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141026191658/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=752 {{sort name|Janet R.|Donovan|nolink=y}}]

| 1983

| Deputy Judge Advocate General (Reserve Affairs & OPS)

| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2016 

|

| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101205153823/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=614 {{sort name|Martha E. G.|Herb|nolink=y}}]

| 1979 (OCS)

| Director Inter-American Defense College

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2018

|

| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120419123413/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=657 {{sort name|Valerie K.|Huegel|nolink=y}}]

| 1980 (OCS)

| Commander, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group

| style="text-align:center;"| 2011

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2017 

|

| [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=637 {{sort name|Rebecca J.|McCormick-Boyle|nolink=y}}]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| 1981

| Chief of Staff, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

| style="text-align:center;"| 2011

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2018

|

| {{sort name|Margaret G.|Kibben}}

| 1986 (OIS)

| Chaplain of the United States Marine Corps, deputy chief of Navy Chaplains

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2018

| 18th Chaplain of the USMC, first female chaplain at USNA.

| {{sort name|Alene B.|Duerk}}

| 1943

| Director Navy Nurse Corps 1970–1975

| style="text-align:center;"| 1972

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1975

| First female admiral in the United States Navy. Director Navy Nurse Corps 1970–1975.

| {{sort name|Maxine|Conder}}

| 1951

| Director, Navy Nurse Corps 1975–1979

| style="text-align:center;"| 1975

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1979

| Director, Navy Nurse Corps.

| {{sort name|Frances|Shea-Buckley}}

| 1951

| 14th Director, Navy Nurse Corps 1979–1983

| style="text-align:center;"| 1979

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1983

| 14th Director, Navy Nurse Corps.

| {{sort name|Pauline|Hartington}}{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

| 1953

| Commander, Naval Training Center Orlando

| style="text-align:center;"| 1981

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1984

| Second woman line officer selected for flag rank.

| {{sort name|Grace|Hopper}}

| 1944

| Head, Training and Technology Directorate/Special Advisor to the Commander, Naval Data Automation Command

| style="text-align:center;"| 1983

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1986

| Co-inventor of COBOL. Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer {{USS|Hopper|DDG-70}} named for RDML Hopper.

| {{sort name|Mary Joan|Nielubowicz}}

| 1951

| 15th Director, Navy Nurse Corps 1983–1987

| style="text-align:center;"| 1983

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1987

| 15th Director, Navy Nurse Corps.

| {{sort name|Mary F.|Hall}}

| 1959

| 16th Director, Navy Nurse Corps 1987–1991

| style="text-align:center;"| 1987

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1991

| Director, Navy Nurse Corps.

| {{sort name|Louise C.|Wilmot|Louise Currie Wilmot}}

| 1964

| Commander, Naval Base Philadelphia −1994

| style="text-align:center;"| 1991

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1994

| First woman to command a naval base.

| {{sort name|Mariann|Stratton}}

| 1966

| 17th Director, Navy Nurse Corps 1991–1994

| style="text-align:center;"| 1991

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1994

| 17th Director, Navy Nurse Corps.

| {{sort name|Maryanne T. Gallagher|Ibach}}{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

| 1964

|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1990

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1995

| First Reserve flag officer for Navy Nurse Corps.

| {{sort name|Katharine L.|Laughton}}{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

| 1963

| Commander, Naval Space Command, Dahlgren, VA 1995–1997

| style="text-align:center;"| 1993

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1997

|

| {{sort name|Nancy A.|Fackler}}{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

| 1962

| Deputy Director of the Navy Nurse Corps for Reserve Affairs

| style="text-align:center;"| 1994

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 1997

|

| {{sort name|Jacqueline O. (Allison)|Barnes}}{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

|

| Director, On-Site Inspection Directorate 1998–2000

| style="text-align:center;"| 1996

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2000

|

| {{sort name|Lillian E.|Fishburne}}

| 1973 (OCS)

| Director, Information Transfer Division for the Space, Information Warfare, Command and Control Directorate ?-2001

| style="text-align:center;"| 1998

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2001

| First African-American woman to achieve flag rank.

| {{sort name|Marianne B.|Drew}}{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

| 1967

| Deputy Commander, Navy Personnel Command

| style="text-align:center;"| 1999

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2002

|

| {{sort name|Eleanor|Mariano}}

| 1977

| White House Physician

| style="text-align:center;"| 2000

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2001

| First Filipino-American flag officer.

| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170904122527/http://sameshield.com/hs.html {{sort name|Rosanne M.|Levitre|nolink=y}}]

| 1973 (OCS)

| Director of Intelligence, J2, U.S. Joint Forces Command

| style="text-align:center;"| 2000

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2005

| First Director, Navy Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), FORCEnet. First female Intel officer selected for flag rank in the United States Navy.

| {{sort name|Carol I.|Turner}}

| 1977

| Senior Health Care Executive, U.S. Navy Commander, Navy Medicine Support Command

| style="text-align:center;"| 2005

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2008

| First female Chief of the Naval Dental Corps, 2003–2007.

| {{sort name|Deborah|Loewer}}

| 1976 (OCS)

| Commander, Mine Warfare Command 2005–2006

| style="text-align:center;"| 2003

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2007

| First warfare-qualified woman selected for flag rank in the United States Navy.

| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070612232119/https://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=382 {{sort name|Cynthia A.|Dullea|nolink=y}}]

| 1980 (OIS)

| Deputy Commander, Navy Medicine National Capital Area

| style="text-align:center;"| 2007

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

|

| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090417092111/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=499 {{sort name|Maude Elizabeth|Young|nolink=y}}]

| 1984 (USNA)

| Director, Systems Engineering National Reconnaissance Office; Commander, SPAWAR Space Field Activity (SSFA), PEO for Space Systems, USN

| style="text-align:center;"| 2008

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2011

|

| {{sort name|Eleanor V.|Valentin}}

| 1982

| Director, Medical Service Corps, Commander, Navy Medicine Support Command, Jacksonville, Florida

| style="text-align:center;"| 2009

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| 16th director of the Medical Service Corps (first female director)

| [https://archive.today/20120805120500/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=528 {{sort name|Robin L.|Graf|nolink=y}}]

| 1981 (OCS)

| Deputy Commander, Navy Recruiting Command

| style="text-align:center;"| 2009

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2016

|

| [https://archive.today/20120805070211/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=601 {{sort name|Diane E. H.|Webber|nolink=y}}]

| 1983 (OCS)

| Commander, Navy Cyber Forces

| style="text-align:center;"| 2009

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2015

|

| [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=515 {{sort name|Ann Claire|Phillips|nolink=y}}]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| 1983 (NROTC)

| Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group Two

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

|

| {{sort name|Gretchen S.|Herbert}}{{cite web|url=http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=537 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805084235/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=537 |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 August 2012 |title=Rear Admiral Gretchen S. Herbert; Commander, Navy Cyber Forces |publisher=Navy.mil |access-date=31 October 2011}}

| 1984 (NROTC)

| Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN)

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

|

| {{sort name|Margaret A.|Rykowski}}

| 1987

| Fleet Surgeon, Third Fleet

| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

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| {{sort name|Sandra E.|Adams}}

| 1981 (OCS)

| Deputy Commander, Naval Expeditionary Combat Command

| style="text-align:center;"| 2011

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2015

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| {{sort name|Annie B.|Andrews}}

| 1983 (NROTC)

| Commander, Navy Recruiting Command

| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2015

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| {{sort name|Cindy|Jaynes}}

| 1983 (OCS)

| Program Executive Officer for Air ASW, Assault & Special Mission Programs, PEO(A)

| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2016

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| {{sort name|Christina M.|Alvarado}}

| 1988

| Deputy Commander, Navy Medicine East

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| style="text-align:center;"| 2015

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2018

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| {{sort name|Babette|Bolivar}}

| 1985 (USNA)

| Commander, Navy Region Southwest

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2021

|

| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130629081430/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=705 {{sort name|Priscilla B.|Coe|nolink=y}}]

|

| Deputy Chief of Staff, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Deputy Chief, Navy Reserve Dental Corps

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2016

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| {{sort name|Lisa|Franchetti}}

| 1985 (NROTC)

| Chief of Naval Operations

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2018

| style="text-align:center;"|2022

| style="text-align:center;"|

| First women to become CNO

| {{sort name|Alma M.|Grocki}}

| 1981 (USNA)

| Deputy Chief of Staff for Fleet Maintenance, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2016

|

| [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=741 {{sort name|Deborah P.|Haven|nolink=y}}]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

|

| Commander, Defense Contract Management Agency International

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| style="text-align:center;"| 2016

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2019

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510121752/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=701 {{sort name|Barbara|Sweredoski|nolink=y}}]

| 1985 (NROTC)

| Reserve Deputy, Military Personnel Plans & Policy N13R

| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2015

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| [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=741 {{sort name|Cynthia|Thebaud|nolink=y}}]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| 1985 (USNA)

| Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific, Commander, Task Force 73, Singapore Area Coordinator

| style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2016

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| 1989 (NROTC)

| Chief of Information (CHINFO)

| PAO

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2017

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| 1989 (NROTC)

| Cyber Security Division Director/Deputy Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer

| IDWO

| style="text-align:center;"| 2015

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2019

|

| (NROTC)

| Commander, U.S. Naval Information Forces

| Intelligence

| style="text-align:center;"| 2016

| style="text-align:center;"| 2019

| style="text-align:center;"| 2021

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

|

|1986

|First female C9 Squadron CO, VR52; Commander of NEPLO Program; Deputy Director OPNAV N81; Deputy Commander Navy IG; Deputy Commander USNAVSO and US FOURTH Fleet

|Naval Aviator

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2018

| Pilot for American Airlines

| {{sort name|Raquel C.|Bono}}{{cite web|url=http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=626|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121212024349/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=626|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 December 2012|title=Raquel C. Bono|publisher=navy.mil}}

| 1979

| Director, Defense Health Agency

| style="text-align:center;"| 2011

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| style="text-align:center;"| 2015

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2019

|

| {{sort name|Tina A.|Davidson}}

| 1986

| Commander, Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command

| style="text-align:center;"| 2016

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2020

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| {{sort name|Mary M.|Jackson}}

| 1988 (USNA)

| Commander, Navy Installations Command

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| style="text-align:center;"| 2017

| style="text-align:center;"| 2017

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"| 2020

| Promoted directly from one-star to three-star.

| {{sort name|Nancy S.|Lacore}}

| 1990 (NROTC)

| Director of the Maritime Partnership Program, U.S. Naval Forces Europe/Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet

| style="text-align:center;"| 2018

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

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| {{sort name|Shoshana S.|Chatfield}}

| 1988 (NROTC)

| President, Naval War College

| style="text-align:center;"| 2015

| style="text-align:center;"| 2018

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

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| {{sort name|Kathleen|Creighton}}

| 1988 (NROTC)

| Director of Warfare Integration

| style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| style="text-align:center;"| 2018

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

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| {{sort name|Yvette M.|Davids}}

| 1989 (USNA)

| Chief of Staff, United States Southern Command

| style="text-align:center;"| 2017

| style="text-align:center;"| 2020

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

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| {{sort name|Sara A.|Joyner}}

| 1989 (USNA)

| Chief of Legislative Affairs, United States Navy

| style="text-align:center;"| 2017

| style="text-align:center;"| 2021

| style="text-align:center;"| 2022

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|

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