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Home / About / Leadership

Vicksburg District Leadership

 

     
 

-- Commander --

District Engineer

Col. Christopher D. Klein

 

--  Deputy Commander --

Maj. Russell (Rocky) Streif

 

 

 -- Deputy District Engineer --

Chief, Programs Project Management

Pat Hemphill

 

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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