Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Dan Caine 2025–present

Christopher W. Grady 2025 Charles Q. Brown Jr. 2023–2025 Mark Milley 2019–2023 Martin Dempsey 2011–2015 Michael Mullen 2007–2011 Peter Pace 2005–2007 Richard Myers 2001–2005 Hugh Shelton 1997–2001 John Shalikashvili 1993–1997 David E. Jeremiah 1993 Colin Powell 1989–1993 William J. Crowe 1985–1989 John William Vessey Jr. 1982–1985 David C. Jones 1978–1982 George Scratchley Brown 1974–1978 Thomas Hinman Moorer 1970–1974 Earle Wheeler 1964–1970 Maxwell D. Taylor 1962–1964 Lyman Lemnitzer 1960–1962 Nathan F. Twining 1957–1960 Arthur W. Radford 1953–1957 Omar Bradley 1949–1953 William D. Leahy 1942–1949