Director
The position of Director of Naval History was first established in 1944.
- Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus, USN, July 1944 – December 1945
- Vice Admiral Vincent R. Murphy, USN (ret.), December 1945 – June 1946
- Rear Admiral John B. Heffernan, USN (ret.), July 1946 – October 1956
- Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller, USN (ret.), October 1956 – January 1970
- Rear Admiral F. Kent Loomis, USN (ret.), 24 January 1970 – 31 July 1970
- Vice Admiral Edwin B. Hooper, USN (ret.), August 1970 – July 1976
- Rear Admiral John D. H. Kane, USN (ret.), August 1976 – December 1985
- Dr. Ronald H. Spector, 21 July 1986 – 19 July 1989
- Dr. Dean C. Allard, 29 July 1989 – 31 January 1995
- Dr. William S. Dudley, 23 July 1995 – 30 September 2005
- Rear Admiral Paul E. Tobin, Jr., USN (ret.), 25 July 2005 – January 2008
- Rear Admiral Jay A. DeLoach, USN (ret.), 23 June 2008 – 14 May 2012
- Captain Henry J. Hendrix, USN, 14 May 2012 - present
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“The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)