Name |
Tenure |
SecDef(s) Served Under |
President(s) Served Under |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Personnel) |
Anna M. Rosenberg | November 15, 1950 – January 20, 1953 | George C. Marshall Robert A. Lovett | Harry Truman |
John A. Hannah | February 11, 1953 – July 31, 1954 | Charles E. Wilson | Dwight Eisenhower |
Carter L. Burgess | September 24, 1954 – January 22, 1957 | Charles E. Wilson | Dwight Eisenhower |
William H. Francis | April 19, 1957 – May 24, 1958 | Charles E. Wilson Neil H. McElroy | Dwight Eisenhower |
Charles O. Finucane | July 15, 1958 – January 19, 1961 | Neil H. McElroy Thomas S. Gates | Dwight Eisenhower |
Carlisle P. Runge | February 17, 1961 – July 30, 1962 | Robert S. McNamara | John F. Kennedy |
Norman S. Paul | August 8, 1962 – September 30, 1965 | Robert S. McNamara | John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson |
Thomas D. Morris | October 1, 1965 – August 31, 1967 | Robert S. McNamara | Lyndon Johnson |
Alfred B. Fitt | October 9, 1967 – February 20, 1969 | Robert S. McNamara Clark M. Clifford Melvin R. Laird | Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon |
Roger T. Kelley | March 3, 1969 – June 1, 1973 | Melvin R. Laird Elliot L. Richardson | Richard Nixon |
Carl W. Clewlow (Acting) | June 1, 1973 – September 1, 1973 | Elliot L. Richardson James R. Schlesinger | Richard Nixon |
William K. Brehm | September 1, 1973 – March 18, 1976 | James R. Schlesinger Donald H. Rumsfeld | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
David P. Taylor | July 7, 1976 – February 12, 1977 | Donald H. Rumsfeld Harold Brown | Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Logistics) |
John P. White | May 11, 1977 – October 31, 1978 | Harold Brown | Jimmy Carter |
Robert B. Pirie, Jr. | June 17, 1979 – January 20, 1981 | Harold Brown | Jimmy Carter |
Lawrence J. Korb | May 4, 1981 – January 12, 1984 | Caspar W. Weinberger | Ronald Reagan |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Installations, and Logistics) |
Lawrence J. Korb | January 12, 1984 – July 5, 1985 | Caspar W. Weinberger | Ronald Reagan |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management and Personnel) |
Lawrence J. Korb | July 5, 1985 – August 31, 1985 | Caspar W. Weinberger | Ronald Reagan |
Chapman B. Cox | December 7, 1985 – July 8, 1987 | Caspar W. Weinberger | Ronald Reagan |
Grant S. Green, Jr. | February 3, 1988 – March 5, 1989 | Frank C. Carlucci III William H. Taft IV (Acting) | Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush |
Christopher Jehn | November 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 | Richard B. Cheney | George H. W. Bush |
Edwin Dorn | July 2, 1993 – March 16, 1994 | Leslie Aspin, Jr. William J. Perry | Bill Clinton |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management Policy) |
Frederick F. Y. Pang | October 11, 1994 – November 15, 1997 | William J. Perry William S. Cohen | Bill Clinton |
Francis M. Rush, Jr. (Acting) | November 15, 1997 – November 12, 1999 | William S. Cohen | Bill Clinton |
Alphonso Maldon, Jr. | November 12, 1999 – January 19, 2001 | William S. Cohen | Bill Clinton |
Charles S. Abell | May 8, 2001 – November 14, 2002 | Donald H. Rumsfeld | George W. Bush |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Readiness and Force Management) |
Frederick E. Vollrath (Acting) | March 26, 2012[1] – April 18, 2013[4] | Leon Panetta Chuck Hagel | Barack Obama |
Frederick E. Vollrath | April 19, 2013 – June 14, 2014 | Chuck Hagel | Barack Obama |
Stephanie Barna (Acting) | June 14, 2014 – April 2016[5] | Chuck Hagel Ashton Carter | Barack Obama |