Rear Admiral Yvette Davids
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael M. Gilday have nominated Rear Adm. Yvette Davids for appointment to the rank of vice admiral and task as the following superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
If confirmed, Davids, a 1989 graduate of the academy, can be its first feminine superintendent. She wouldn’t, nevertheless, be the primary feminine superintendent of any U.S. federal service academy, however the fourth.
Then Rear Adm. Sandra L. Stosz turned superintendent of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 2011, whereas Lt. Gen. Michelle D. Johnson turned superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2015 and Rear Adm Joanna M. Nunan (U.S. Coast Guard, Ret.) was appointed superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), Kings Point, N.Y., in November final 12 months.
Davids is a profession floor warfare officer and is presently serving as director of the Navy’s Learning to Action Drive Team.
She graduated the academy with a bachelor of science in oceanography. She can also be a 2002 graduate of the Naval War College with a grasp of arts in nationwide safety and strategic research and a 2012 graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces with a grasp of science in nationwide useful resource technique.
Davids’ sea assignments have included electrical officer, fight data heart officer, and communications officer aboard USS San Jose (AFS 7) deploying in assist of Desert Shield/Storm; operations officer aboard USS David R. Ray (DD 971); operations officer aboard USS Normandy (CG 60); government officer aboard USS Higgins (DDG 76) in the course of the preliminary fight operations of Iraqi Freedom; and later government officer aboard USS Benfold (DDG 65).
Davids commanded USS Curts (FFG 38) deploying to the Western Pacific and Arabian Gulf in assist of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Subsequently, she commanded USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) serving as air protection commander for the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group. Her most up-to-date operational task was as Commander, Nimitz Strike Group / Carrier Strike Group 11.
Her task to Curts made her the primary Hispanic American girl to command a Navy warship. For this milestone, Davids was a 2008 recipient of the Mexican American Women’s National Association’s Las Primeras Award for Latinas who show necessary ‘firsts’ of their fields with a nationwide influence.
Ashore, she served as aide to the deputy and chief of employees, U.S. Pacific Fleet; as a joint train communications planner on the Joint Warfighting Center, Joint Forces Command (J6); deputy government assistant to the deputy chief of naval operations for Information, Plans, and Strategy (OPNAV N3/N5); director, Naval Academy Sailing, U.S. Naval Academy; government assistant to the manager director of Commander, Naval Surface Forces Command; and assistant chief of employees for Requirements, Experimentation, and Innovation (N8/N9) for the commander, U.S. third Fleet. Her flag assignments embrace senior navy advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs with the U.S. Department of State, Carrier Strike Group command, and chief of employees, U.S. Southern Command.
