NATIONAL OFFICERS
Commander General: RADM Peter L. Andrus, SHCE/MC, USN (Ret.)
Commander General - Elect: CAPT Frederick J. Passman, USN (Ret.)
Vice Commander General - Commandery Support: CAPT Jerry Rovner, USN (Ret.)
Vice Commander General - Membership: CAPT William F. Steagall, Jr., USN (Ret.)
Vice Commander General (At Large) Projects Director: CAPT Joseph R. Valenta, USN (Ret.)
Vice Commander General (At Large) - Continental Commandery Commander: LCDR Robert B. Thompson, USN (Ret.)
Vice Commander General (At Large): LCDR Steven Sinclair, USN (Ret.)
Vice Commander General - Communications: CAPT Robert “Bob” Whitkop, USN (Ret.)
Historian General: CAPT Stanley Carpenter, USN (Ret.)
Assistant Historian General: CDR Dave Winkler, USN (Ret.)
Recorder General: CDR Louis J. Orsini, USCG (Ret.)
Assistant Recorder General: LCDR Michael Quigley, USN (Ret.)
Registrar General: CAPT M. K. [Kris] Carlock, USN (Ret.)
Treasurer General: CDR Robert B. Frazier, SC, USN (Ret.)
Assistant Treasurer General: CAPT Aaron Bresnahan, USN (Ret.)
Auditor General: RADM Thomas Andrews, SC USN (Ret)
Chaplain General: CDR Michael P. Zuffoletto, CHC, USN (Ret.)
Judge Advocate General: RADM Jud Scott, USN (Ret.)
Master-at-Arms General: ISCM David Mattingly, USN (Ret.)
Parliamentarian General: CAPT Frances McDonald, USN (Ret.)
Surgeon General: RADM Duret S. Smith, MC USN (Ret.)
Immediate Past Commander General : CAPT Robert “Bob” Whitkop, USN (Ret.)
Companions to the General Council (At Large): CWO3 Anthony D. Atwood, USN (Ret.); Col Victor E. Bianchini, USMC (Ret.); CDR John Cupschalk, USN (Ret.); CAPT W.O. King, USN (Ret.); CAPT James S. Thomson USN (Ret.); CAPT Eric J. Trehubenko, USN(Ret)
Senior Enlisted Advisors to the Commander General: MCCS Robert A. Hansen, USN (Ret.)
CHAIRMEN OF NATIONAL COMMITTEES
Constitution and Bylaws Committee: CAPT Paul H. Crissy, USCG (Ret.)
Credentials Committee: MCCS Robert A. Hansen, USN (Ret.)
Distinguished Sea Service Award Committee: CAPT Frederick J. Passman, USN (Ret.)
Finance Committee: CDR Robert Frazier, SC, USN (Ret.)
Financial Review and Audit Committee: RADM Thomas Andrews, SC USN (Ret)
Investment Committee: CAPT Robert “Bob” Whitkop, USN (Ret.)
National Advisory Committee – Immediate Past Commander General: CAPT Robert “Bob” Whitkop, USN (Ret.)
National Awards Committee: Col Allan F. P. Cruz, USMC (Ret.)
National Commandery Support Committee: CAPT Jerry Rovner, USN (Ret.)
National Communications Committee: CAPT Robert “Bob” Whitkop, USN (Ret.)
National Historical Committee: CAPT Stanley Carpenter, USN (Ret.)
National Membership Committee: CAPT William F. Steagall, Jr., USN (Ret.)
National Nominating Committee: CAPT Robert “Bob” Whitkop, USN (Ret.)
Resolutions Committee: RADM Jud Scott, USN (Ret.)
Site Committee: CAPT Paul H. Crissy, USCG (Ret.)
Strategic Planning Committee: CAPT Frederick J. Passman, USN (Ret.)
OTHER OFFICIALS
Managing Editor Newsletter: Ms. Marcy Weiss
NOUS Webmaster: Mrs. Sarah Koller
Ship’s Store Manager: CAPT Aaron Bresnahan, USN (Ret.)
NAVAL ORDER FOUNDATION
USPS Address:
Naval Order Foundation
7847 Inca Road
Larkspur, CO 80118
President & Director: CAPT Frederick J. Passman, USN (Ret.)
Vice President & Director: CAPT Jerry Rovner, USN (Ret.)
Secretary & Director: CAPT Aaron Bresnahan, USN (Ret.)
Treasurer & Director: Mr. Mark Sneddon
Assistant Treasurer: CAPT Kenneth E. Arendt, SC, USN (Ret.)
Other NOUS Foundation Directors:
RADM George A. Huchting, USN (Ret.)
RADM Douglas M. Moore, Jr., SC, USN (Ret.)
CAPT Robert (Bob) Whitkop, USN (Ret.)
CAPT Gregory F. Streeter, USN (Ret.)
CAPT Vance H. Morrison, USN (Ret.)
NATIONAL CONGRESS
2024 Annual Congress in Buffalo, hosted by National Committee: CAPT Paul H. Crissy, USCG (Ret.), RADM John Paddock, USN (Ret.),
COMMANDERS GENERAL OF THE NAVAL ORDER OF THE UNITED STATES
2023-present RADM Peter L. Andrus
2021-2023, CAPT Robert N. Whitkop
2019-2021, COL Allan F. P. Cruz
2017-2019, CAPT Paul H. Crissy
2015-2017, CAPT Michele Lockwood
2013-2015, CAPT Vance H. Morrison
2011-2013, RADM Douglas M. Moore, Jr.
2009-2011, CAPT Gregory F. Streeter
2007-2009, CAPT Kenneth Albin Johnson
2005-2007, CAPT Carter Barry Conlin
2003-2005, CAPT Fred Case Hawkins, Jr.
2001-2003, RADM Thomas Francis Brown, III
1999-2001, RADM Lester Robert Smith
1997-1999, CAPT James Franklin Brooke III
1995-1997, RADM William Firman Merlin
1993-1995, COL William Richard Bremer
1991-1993, CAPT Wallace Howard Lloyd, Jr.
1989-1991, CAPT John Charles Rice, Jr.
1987-1989, CAPT Frederick Daniel Carl
1985-1987, CDR Stanley John Majka
1983-1985, RADM Winston Holbrook Weese
1981-1983, LCDR Raymond Edward Cross
1979-1981, CDR Albert Frederick Kempe
1977-1979, CAPT Edward Sydney Anderson
1975-1977, CAPT Robert Bashford Bolt
1973-1975, RADM Alban Weber
1971-1973, CAPT Malcolm Townsend Munger
1969-1971, CAPT Robert Granville Burke
1966-1969, ADM Joseph James Clark
1964-1966, CAPT Jeremiah Francis O'Shea
1962-1964, CAPT Douglas Wilson Dodge
1958-1961, RADM Thurston H. James
1949-1958, CDR Charles Hann, Jr.
1946-1949, VADM William Augustus Read
1943-1946, CAPT James Harvey Tomb
1937-1943, CDR Frederick Bernard Craven
1931-1937, RADM Reginald Bowman Belknap
1928-1931, RADM Albert Gleaves
1925-1928, CAPT Herbert Livingston Satterlee
1917-1925, RADM Francis John Higginson
1907-1917, ADM George Dewey
1895-1907, RADM John Grimes Walker
1893-1895, LCDR John Codman Soley
1890-1893, Mr. Charles Calhoun Philbrook
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