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Army Nurse Corps History Home

 

Superintendent

 

Dita H. McKinney

Nurses had no rank

15 Mar 1901--31 Jul 1909

Jane A. Delano

Nurses had no rank

12 Aug 1909--31 Mar 1912

Isabel McIsaac

Nurses had no rank

01 Apr 1912--21 Sep 1914

Dora E. Thompson

Nurses had no rank

22 Sep 1914--29 Dec 1919

Julia C. Stimson

Major (Relative Rank1)

30 Dec 1919--31 May 1937

Julia O. Flikke

Major (Relative Rank1)

01 Jun 1937--13 Mar 1942

Julia O. Flikke

Colonel (Temporary Commission2)

13 Mar 1942--30 Jun 1943

Florence A. Blanchfield

Colonel (Temporary Commission2)

01 Jul 1943--16 Apr 1947

   

 

Chief Army Nurse Corps3

 

Florence A. Blanchfield

Colonel

16 Apr 1947--30 Sep 1947

Mary G. Phillips

Colonel

01 Oct 1947--30 Sep 1951

Ruby F. Bryant

Colonel

01 Oct 1951--30 Sep 1955

Inez Haynes

Colonel

01 Oct 1955--31 Aug 1959

Margaret Harper

Colonel

01 Sep 1959--31 Aug 1963

Mildred Irene Clark

Colonel

01 Sep 1963--21 Aug 1967

Anna Mae Hays

Colonel

01 Sep 1967--10 Jun 1970

Anna Mae Hays

Brigadier General

11 Jun 1970--31 Aug 1971

Lillian Dunlap

Brigadier General

01 Sep 1971--31 Aug 1975

Madelyn N. Parks

Brigadier General

01 Sep 1975--31 Aug 1979

Hazel W. Johnson

Brigadier General

01 Sep 1979--31 Aug 1983

Connie L. Slewitzke

Brigadier General

01 Sep 1983--31 Aug 1987

Clara L. Adams-Ender

Brigadier General

01 Sep 1987--31 Aug 1991

Nancy R. Adams

Brigadier General

01 Dec 1991--01 Dec 1995

Bettye H. Simmons

Brigadier General

12 Dec 1995--31 Jan 2000

William T. Bester

Brigadier General

1 May 2000--01 June 2004

Gail S. Pollock

Major General

26 July 2004--26 July 2008

Patricia D. Horoho 

Major General

27 July 2008--Dec 2011

Jimmie O. Keenan

Major General

12 Jan 2012--4 Nov 2015

Barbara Holcomb

Major General

4 Nov 2015--1 July 2019

Jack M. Davis

Brigadier General

1 July 2019--Sep 2022

James D. Burk

Brigadier General

1 Nov 2023--Current

 

 

 

14 Jun 1920, an Army Reorganization Act authorized relative rank for Army nurses in recognition of the outstanding services of more than twenty thousand Army nurses during WW I. Although allowed to wear the insignia of the relative rank, it did not grant full rights and privileges, such as pay.

213 Mar 1942, the Superintendent of the Nurse Corps received a temporary commission as a Colonel in the Army of the United States. Although they wore the insignia of that grade, they were denied the pay of that grade. In 1952, the 82d Congress in Private Law 716 reversed the decision and they, then retired, received the pay which had been withheld for ten years.

316 Apr 1947 Congress established the Army Nurse Corps in the Medical Department of the Regular Army. The Army-Navy Nurse Act also provided permanent commissioned officer status for members of the Army Nurse Corps.