Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)

Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Manpower and Reserve Affairs
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for; Manpower and Reserve Affairs
	Seal of the Department of the Navy
	Incumbent; Franklin R. Parker; since January 18, 2023
Style	Mr. Secretary; The Honorable; (formal address in writing)
Reports to	Secretary of the Navy; Under Secretary of the Navy
Seat	The Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, United States
Nominator	The President with Senate advice and consent
Term length	No fixed term
Constituting instrument	10. U.S.C. § 8016
Formation	September 1968
First holder	Randolph S. Driver
Succession	18th in SecDef succession by seniority of appointment
Deputy	Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (Manpower & Reserve Affairs)
Salary	Executive Schedule, Level IV
Website	Official website

The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) (abbreviated as ASN M&RA) is a civilian office in the United States Department of the Navy. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) reports to the Under Secretary of the Navy who in turn reports to the United States Secretary of the Navy.

The office of Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) was created in 1968. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) is responsible for recruiting all of the personnel of the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps, including military personnel (both active and reserve), government civilians, contractors, and volunteers. Since 1993, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) has been assisted by the Department of the Navy Force Management Oversight Council, an advisory council of senior military and civilian personnel in the Department of the Navy.

Organization of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)

The principal deputies of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) are:

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Total Force Transformation)
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Military Personnel Policy)
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Reserve Affairs)
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Civilian Human Resources)
Assistant General Counsel of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)

The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) oversees the following organizations:

The principal military advisors of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) are:

Assistant Secretaries

Name	Assumed office	Left office	President appointed by	Secretary served under
Randolph S. Driver	September 1968	January 20, 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson	Paul Robert Ignatius
James D. Hittle	March 1969	March 1971	Richard Nixon	John Chafee
James E. Johnson	June 1971	September 1973		John Chafee John Warner
Joseph T. McCullen, Jr.	September 1973	April 1977		John Warner J. William Middendorf
Edward Hidalgo	April 25, 1977	October 24, 1979	Jimmy Carter	W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
Joseph A. Doyle	December 1979	January 1981	Jimmy Carter	Edward Hidalgo
John S. Herrington	October 1981	February 1983	Ronald Reagan	John Lehman
Chapman B. Cox	June 1983	June 1984		John Lehman
Chase Untermeyer	December 1984	April 1988		John Lehman Jim Webb
Kenneth P. Bergquist	June 1988	November 1989		William L. Ball Henry L. Garrett III
Barbara S. Pope	November 1989	January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush	Henry L. Garrett III Sean O'Keefe
Dorothy M. Meletzke (acting)	January 20, 1993	November 1993	George H. W. Bush	John Howard Dalton
Frederick Pang	November 1993	October 1994	Bill Clinton
Bernard D. Rostker	October 7, 1994	October 1998
Carolyn H. Becraft	October 1998	January 20, 2001		Richard Danzig
Bonnie Morehouse (acting)	January 20, 2001	July 17, 2001	George W. Bush	Gordon R. England
William A. Navas Jr.	July 17, 2001	January 7, 2008	George W. Bush	Gordon R. England Donald C. Winter
Anita K. Blair (acting)	January 7, 2008	January 20, 2009	Barack Obama	Donald C. Winter
Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (acting)	January 20, 2009	September 16, 2009		Donald C. Winter
Juan M. Garcia III^[2]	September 16, 2009	January 14, 2016		Ray Mabus
Franklin R. Parker	January 14, 2016	January 20, 2017		Ray Mabus
Robert L. Woods (Acting)	April 30, 2017	June 10, 2018	Donald Trump	Richard V. Spencer
Gregory J. Slavonic	June 11, 2018	January 20, 2021	Donald Trump	Richard V. Spencer Kenneth Braithwaite
Catherine L. Kessmeier (acting)	January 20, 2021	August 2021	Joe Biden	Thomas Harker (acting)
Robert D. Hogue (acting)	August 2021	January 18, 2023		Carlos Del Toro
Franklin R. Parker	January 18, 2023	Incumbent		Carlos Del Toro

References

^ 5 U.S.C. § 5315
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2010-02-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)