Patch contributed by Mike Smolinski.
| Commanding Officers | |||
| Captain Vincent Paul DePoix | USNA 1939 | 25 Nov 1961 - 20 Jul 1963 | VADM |
| Captain Frederick Hayes ("Mike") Michaelis | USNA 1940 | 20 Jul 1963 - 17 Jul 1965 | ADM |
| Captain James Lemuel Holloway III | USNA 1943 (1) | 17 Jul 1965 - 11 Jul 1967 | ADM (1) |
| Captain Kent Liston Lee | USNR 1944 | 11 Jul 1967 - 8 Jul 1969 | VADM |
| Captain Forrest Silas Petersen | USNA 1945 (2) | 8 Jul 1969 - 3 Dec 1971 | VADM |
| Captain Ernest Eugene ("Gene") Tissot, Jr. [Biography] | AVMID 1949 | 3 Dec 1971 - 9 Apr 1974 | RADM |
| Captain Carol Castleman Smith, Jr. | USNA 1952 | 9 Apr 1974 - 10 Dec 1976 | VADM |
| Captain James Willis Austin [Biography] | USNA 1954 | 10 Dec 1976 - 23 Feb 1980 | RADM |
| Captain Robert Joseph ("Barney") Kelly | USNA 1959 | 23 Feb 1980 - 17 Jun 1983 | ADM |
| Captain Robert Lee Leuschner, Jr. | NROTC 1957 | 17 Jun 1983 - 27 Jan 1986 | RADM |
| Captain Robert Johnson Spane [Biography] | USNA 1962 | 27 Jan 1986 - 28 Oct 1988 | VADM |
| Captain Harry Taylor Rittenour [Biography] | USNA 1968 | 28 Oct 1988 - 7 Aug 1991 | RADM |
| Captain Daniel Clark Roper | (3) | 7 Aug 1991 - 27 Aug 1993 | |
| Captain Richard Joseph Naughton | USNA 1968 | 27 Aug 1993 - 2 Feb 1996 | VADM |
| Captain Michael Dennis Malone | USNA 1970 | 2 Feb 1996 - 10 Nov 1997 | VADM |
| Captain Evan Marthy ("Streak") Chanik | USNA 1973 | 10 Nov 1997 - 10 Mar 2000 | VADM |
| Captain James Alexander ("Sandy") Winnefeld, Jr. [Biography] | NROTC 1978 | 10 Mar 2000 - 15 Feb 2002 | ADM |
| Captain Eric Christian Neidlinger [Biography] | USNA 1976 | 15 Feb 2002 - 10 Dec 2004 | |
| Captain Lawrence Scott ("Larry") Rice | USNA 1979 | 10 Dec 2004 - 17 May 2007 | RADM |
| Captain Ronald Horton | USNA 1982 | 17 May 2007 - 6 May 2010 | RADM |
| Captain Owen Paul Honors, Jr. | USNA 1983 | 6 May 2010 - 4 January 2011 | |
| Captain Dee Leon Mewbourne [Biography] | USNA 1982 | 4 January 2011 - 17 August 2011 | VADM |
| Captain William Christopher Hamilton, Jr. | AOCS 1983 | 17 August 2011 - 15 October 2015 | |
| Captain Todd A. Beltz | NROTC 1989 | 15 October 2015 - 3 February 2017 | |
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(1) Graduated on 19 June 1942 with the Class of 1943. 20th Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1 July 1974–30 June 1978. [Back] (2) Graduated on 7 June 1944 with the Class of 1945. [Back] (3) Reported to the NASA Flight Research Center as an Army Military Detailee. After an interservice transfer to the Navy, was designated a Naval Aviator in September 1972. [Back] | |||
Source: USS Enterprise official web site;
Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler
Photo of CAPT Holloway courtesy of the Vallejo Naval and Historical
Museum, via Darryl Baker
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