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2010’s
Paul D. Bowdich, CAPT
December 2017 to present
Todd A. Bahlau, CAPT
December 2014 to December 2017
Matt Coughlin, CAPT
September 2011 to December 2014
Peter Hall, CAPT
November 2009 to November 2011
2000’s
Enrique Sadsad, CAPT
August ’07 to 2009
Joan M. Platz, CAPT
August ’04 to August ‘07
W.B. Watkins, CAPT
August ’01 to August ‘04
90’s
D.W. Nelms, CAPT
June ’98 to August ‘01
Richard L. Dick, CAPT
July ’95 to June ‘98
L.K. Tande, CAPT
July ’93 to July ‘95
J.E. Eckart, CAPT
July ’91 to July ‘93
80’s
Kenneth G. Johnson, CAPT
July ’89 to July ‘91
Paul E. Pedisich, CAPT
March ’87 to June ‘89
Carlton L. Lavinder Jr., CAPT
February ’84 to March ‘87
Robert E. Jones, CAPT
Ocrober ’83 to February ‘84
Giles R. Norrington, CAPT
May ’82 to October ‘83
Charles L. Tinker, CAPT
August ’80 to May ‘82
70’s
Robert W. McKay, CAPT
August ’77 to August ‘80
Douglas W. Payne, CAPT
August ’76 to August ‘77
Joseph Kenneth Hassett, CAPT
May ’75 to August ‘76
Thomas P. McGinnus, CAPT
August ’74 to May ‘75
Joseph Rezzarday, Jr., CAPT
January ’72 to August ‘74
60’s
Clarendon H. Sigley, CAPT
June ‘68 to July ‘70
Richard H. Mills, CAPT
July ’67 to June ‘68
Joseph C. Zirkle, CAPT
June ’65 to July ‘67
Paul J. George, CAPT
July ’63 to June ‘65
Robert E. Taylor, CAPT
May ’62 to June ‘63
Ned L. Broyles, CAPT
July ’60 to May ‘62
50’s
Charles S. Moffett, CAPT
May ’59 to July ‘60
Daniel J. Harrington, CAPT
April ’57 to May ‘59
John J. Lynch, CAPT
July ’55 to april ‘57
Paul Masterson, VADM
June ’53 to July ‘55
Leroy C. Simpler, RADM
July ’51 to June ‘53
Francis E. Bardwell, CAPT
June ’50 to July ‘51
40’s
Leonard O. Fox, CAPT
October ’48 to June ‘50
Richard K. Gaines, CAPT
May ’47 to October ‘48
Edward E. Renfro, ADM
May ’46 to May ‘47
Isaac J. Heizler, CDR
December ’45 to May ‘46
Robert A. Rosasco, CDR
April ’45 to December ‘45
Sanford LaMartine Meade, CAPT
December ’43 to April ‘45
George Samuel Gillespie, CDR
July ’43 to December ‘43
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: NAS Whiting Field's Commanidng Officers Through the Years