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Vicksburg District Leadership

-- Commander --

District Engineer

Col. Christopher D. Klein

-- Deputy Commander --

Maj. Russell (Rocky) Streif

-- Deputy District Engineer --

Chief, Programs Project Management

Commanders (1985 to Present)

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2022 to Present, Col. Christopher D. Klein

2019 to 2022, Col. Robert A. Hilliard

2016 to 2019, Col. Michael C. Derosier

2013 to 2016, Col. John W. Cross

2009 to 2013, Col. Jeffrey R. Eckstein

2007 to 2009, BG. Michael C. Wehr

2004 to 2007, Col. Anthony C. Vesay

2001 to 2004, Col. Frederick L. Clapp, Jr.

1998 to 2001, BG. Robert Crear

1995 to 1998, Col. Gary W. Wright

1993 to 1995, Col. Stanley G. Phernambucq

1990 to 1993, Col. Stephenson W. Page

1988 to 1990, Col. Francis R. Skidmore

1985 to 1988, Col. Pat M. Stevens IV

Commanders (1884 to 1937)

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1884 to 1886, Capt. Eric Bergland

1886 to 1899, Maj. Joseph H. Willard

1899 to 1901, Maj. Thomas L. Casey

1901 to 1903, Capt. Charles L. Potter

1903 to 1904, Capt. Charles S. Bromwell

1904 to 1904, Capt. James F. McIndoe

1904 to 1904, Lt. Col. H. M. Adams

1904 to 1907, Capt. George M. Hoffman

1907 to 1911, Capt. Clarke S. Smith

1911 to 1913, Capt. James A. Woodruff

1913 to 1914, Mr. Ernest Graves

1914 to 1917, Maj. John R. Slattery

1917 to 1917, Lt. Col. George P. Howell

1917 to 1919, Mr. Alexander M. Todd

1917 to 1919, Mr. Thomas C. Thomas

1919 to 1920, Capt. John W. Stewart

1919 to 1920, Col. Curtis W. Otwell

1920 to 1920, Maj. R. P. Howell

1920 to 1922, Maj. James A. O'Connor

1926 to 1931, Lt. Col John C. H. Lee

1931 to 1933, Maj. Thomas B. Larkin

1933 to 1933, Maj. Clark Kittrell

1933 to 1937, Lt. Col. Lunsford E. Oliver

Commanders (1940 to 1985)

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1937 to 1940, Lt. Col. Raymond G. Moses

1940 to 1942, Col. Samuel D. Sturgis, Jr.

1942 to 1946, Lt. Col. Raymond W. Sauer

1946 to 1949, Col. Robert G. Lovett

1949 to 1950, Col. Benjamin C. Fowlkes

1950 to 1953, Lt. Col. George F. Dixon, Jr.

1953 to 1956, Col. Thomas B. Simpson

1956 to 1959, Col. Milton P. Barschdorf

1959 to 1961, Col. James E. Walsh

1961 to 1963, Col. Warren S. Everett

1963 to 1966, Col. James A. Betts

1966 to 1968, Col. Felix R. Garret

1968 to 1971, Col. John W. Brennan

1971 to 1974, Col. Marvin W. Rees

1974 to 1977, Col. Gerald E. Galloway

1977 to 1979, Col. John H. Moellering

1979 to 1982, Col. Samuel P. Collins, Jr.

1982 to 1985, Col. Dennis J. York

Other Leadership

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