Commandants & Commanders of the Corps

Since the Corps of Cadets’ inception in 1876, strong leadership has played a major role in the overall success of the Corps. Commandants and Corps Commanders from many backgrounds have proudly and faithfully served Texas A&M and the Corps of Cadets for generations.

This page is dedicated to recognizing all of the men and women who have led our Corps with respect, excellence, leadership, loyalty, integrity, and selfless service. For over 145 years, their daily efforts in upholding the Aggie core values and their relentless commitment to each and every cadet’s personal success has ensured that the Corps of Cadets can continue to shape students into our nation’s top leaders.

COMMANDANTS

2025-Present – Lieutenant General James W. “Chip” Bierman Jr.
2024-2025 – Lieutenant General Loyd S. “Chip” Utterback ’75 – Interim Commandant
2022–2024 – Brigadier General Patrick Michaelis ’93
2021-2022 – Colonel Byron Stebbins ’78 – Interim Commandant
2010–2021 – Brigadier General Joe E. Ramirez ’79
2010–2010 – Colonel Jake Betty ’73 – Interim Commandant
2002–2010 – Lieutenant General John A. Van Alstyne ’66
1996–2002 – Major General M. T. Hopgood, Jr. ’65
1987–1996 -Major General Thomas Darling ’54
1986–1987 – Dr. J. Malon Southerland ’65
1982–1986 – Colonel Donald L. Burton ’56
1977–1982 – Colonel James R. Woodall ’50
1971–1977 – Colonel Thomas R. Parsons ’49
1967–1971 – Colonel Jim H. McCoy ’40
1963–1967 – Colonel D. L. Baker ’33
1951–1963 – Colonel Joe E. Davis ’29
1948–1951 – Colonel Haydon Boatner
1946–1948 – Colonel Guy F. Meloy
1941–1946 – Colonel Maurice D. Welty
1940–1941 – Lieutenant Colonel James A. Watson
1937–1940 – Colonel George F. Moore ’08
1935–1937 – Colonel Frank G. Anderson
1932–1935 – Lieutenant Colonel John E. Mitchell
1927–1932 – Colonel Charles Nelson
1925–1927 – Lieutenant Colonel P. H. Turnell
1923–1925 – Colonel Charles C. Todd ’01
1920–1923 – Lieutenant Colonel Ike S. Ashburn, Jr.
1919–1920 – Louis R. Dougherty
1918–1919 – Colonel C. H. Muller
1917–1918 – Colonel C. S. Crane
1916–1917 – Captain C. H. Muller
1914–1916 – Lieutenant James R. Hill
1912–1914 – Lieutenant Levi G. Brown
1911–1912 – Lieutenant Chauncey Fenton
1907–1911 – Captain Andrew M. Moses
1903–1907 – Captain Herbert H. Sargent
1901–1903 – Captain E. P. Avery
1899–1901 – Col. John Carter Edmonds
March–May 1899 – E. J. Kyle
1898–1899 – Harry B. Martin
April–July 1898 – Col. John Carter Edmonds
1894–1898 – Lieutenant George L. Bartlett
1890–1894 – Lieutenant Benjamin C. Morse
1889–1890 – Lieutenant William S. Scott
1886–1888 – Lieutenant Guy Carleton
1884–1886 – Lieutenant John S. Mallory
1881–1884 – Captain C. J. Crane
1877–1881 – Captain George T. Olmstead, Jr.
1876–1877 – Major Robert P. W. Morris

COMMANDERS

2024–2025 — Deandré Macri, Fort Huachuca, AZ
2023–2024 — Caitlynn Walsh, Double Oak, TX
2022–2023 — Grayson Winchester, Fort Worth, TX
2021–2022 — Connor Fortier, Flower Mound, TX
2020–2021 — Tanner Cedrone, Plano, TX
2019–2020 — Luke Thomas, Decatur, TX
2018–2019 — Adam Buckley, Houston, TX
2017–2018 — Brad Sauer, Harker Heights, TX
2016–2017 — Cecille Sorio, San Antonio, TX
2015–2016 — Alyssa Michalke, Schulenburg, TX
2014–2015 — David Trigg, San Antonio, TX
2013–2014 — Eric Gil, Poway, CA
2012–2013 — Marquis Alexander, Houston, TX
2011–2012 — Patrick Reeves, Katy, TX
2010–2011 — David Keim, College Station, TX
2009–2010 — Brent Lanier, Katy, TX
2008–2009 — Jordan Reid, Whitehouse, TX
2007–2008 — Nick Guillemette, Kempner, TX
2006–2007 — Jackson Dashiell, Plano, TX
2005–2006 — Matt Ockwood, Austin, TX
2005–2005 — Kyle Tobin, Richmond, TX (Spring)
2004–2004 — John Huffman, College Station, TX (Fall)
2003–2004 — Will McAdams, Colorado City, TX
2002–2003 — Spence Pennington, Raymondville, TX
2001–2002 — Joe Dickerson, Andrews, TX
2000–2001 — Mark A. Welsh, Austin, TX
1999–2000 — Forrest C. Lane, Kennadale, TX
1998–1999 — Tase E. Bailey, Dallas, TX
1997–1998 — Daniel M. Feather, Menard, TX
1996–1997 — Stephen R. Foster, Arp, TX
1995–1996 — Tyson T. Voelkel, Brenham, TX
1994–1995 — Matthew P. Segrest, Bryan, TX
1993–1994 — William J. Haraway, Harlingen, TX
1992–1993 — Matthew J. Michaels, Houston, TX
1991–1992 — John B. Sherman, Victoria, TX
1990–1991 — Jonathan D. Whittles, Cloverdale, OR
1989–1990 — Matthew C. Poling, San Antonio, TX
1988–1989 — Todd M. Reichert, Arlington, TX
1987–1988 — Patrick W. Thomasson, Athens, GA
1986–1987 — Garland W. Wilkinson, Littlefield, TX
1985–1986 — Curt A. Van De Walle, Hondo, TX
1984–1985 — Charles H. Rollins III, New Oxford, PA
1983–1984 — Preston C. Abbott, Longview, TX
1982–1983 — Michael W. Holmes, Grand Prairie, TX
1981–1982 — Charles K. Castleberry, Lake Jackson, TX
1980–1981 — Kenneth B. Cross, Richardson, TX
1979–1980 — William D. Dugat III, Weslaco, TX
1978–1979 — Robert J. Kamensky, San Angelo, TX
1977–1978 — Michael H. Gentry, Huntsville, TX
1976–1977 — Robert W. Harvey, Houston, TX
1975–1976 — Joseph M. Chandler, Jr San Antonio, TX
1974–1975 — Ricky A. Gray, Dallas, TX
1974 — John D. Chappelle, Dallas, TX
1973–1974 — Charles S. Eberhart, Dallas, TX
1972–1973 — Ronald L. Krnavek, Corpus Christi, TX
1971–1972 — Thomas M. Stanley, Mount Pleasant, TX
1970–1971 — Van H. Taylor, Temple, TX
1969–1970 — Matthew R. Carroll, El Paso, TX
1968–1969 — Hector Gutierrez, Laredo, TX
1967–1968 — Lonnie C. Minze, Houston, TX
1966–1967 — Eddie J. Davis, Henrietta, TX
1965–1966 — Ralph B. Filburn III, San Angelo, TX
1964–1965 — Neil L. Keltner, Lansing, MI
1963–1964 — Paul A. Dresser, Corsicana, TX
1962–1963 — William D. Nix, Jr. San Antonio, TX
1961–1962 — James W. Cardwell, Luling, TX
1960–1961 — Sydney W. Heaton, Tyler, TX
1959–1960 — William B. Heye, Jr., San Antonio, TX
1958–1959 — Donald R. Cloud, Kerens, TX
1957–1958 — Jon L. Hagler, La Grange, TX
1956–1957 — Jack H. Lunsford, Houston, TX
1955–1956 — Larry B. Kennedy, Houston, TX
1954–1955 — Jessie F. Ford, Lubbock, TX
1953–1954 — Frederick H. Mitchell, Galveston, TX
1952–1953 — Weldon D. Kruger, Brenham, TX
1951–1952 — Eric W. Carlson, Elgin, TX
1950–1951 — Alfred D. Martin, Jr., Dallas, TX
1949–1950 — Doyle R. Avant, Jr., Laredo, TX
1948–1949 — Marvin R. McClure, Jr., Texarkana, TX
1947–1948 — William L. Brown, Cleburne, TX
1946–1947 — Edward D. Brandt, Houston, TX
1945–1946 — Eli F. Baker, Wichita Falls, TX (Spring)
1944–1945 — Charles R. West, Marianna, AR (Fall)
1943–1944 — George Strickhausen III, Galveston, TX
1942–1943 — Robert L. Butchofsky, Ysleta, TX
1941–1942 — John M. Mullins, Carrizo Springs, TX
1940–1941 — Walter W. Cardwell, Jr., Luling, TX
1939–1940 — Tom S. Gillis, Fort Worth, TX
1938–1939 — William A. Becker, Kaufman, TX
1937–1938 — Durwood B. Varner, Cottonwood, TX
1936–1937 — David B. Thrift, San Antonio, TX
1935–1936 — Appleton D. Justice, Post, TX
1934–1935 — Louis E. Lee, Houston, TX
1933–1934 — Earle D. Button, Houston, TX
1932–1933 — Joe C. McHaney, San Antonio, TX
1931–1932 — George V. Holmes, Gonzales, TX
1930–1931 — Jim W. Aston, Farmersville, TX
1929–1930 — August C. Moser, Jr., Dallas, TX
1928–1929 — Frank E. Bortle, Longview, TX
1927–1928 — Joseph H. Taylor, Dallas, TX
1926–1927 — William P. Patton, Jr., Lockhart, TX
1925–1926 — Lacy N. Bourland, Clarendon, TX
1924–1925 — Robert L. Edgar, Cleburne, TX
1923–1924 — William M. Pinson, Forney, TX
1922–1923 — Frank M. Stubbs, Jr., Robstown, TX
1921–1922 — Herman L. Roberts, Corsicana, TX
1920–1921 — John C. Mayfield, Huntsville, TX
1919–1920 — Paul C. Franke, Jr., El Campo, TX
1918–1919 — Bonner H. Barns, Coleman, TX
1917–1918 — Waller T. Burns, Houston, TX
1916–1917 — Douglas W. Howell, Bryan, TX
1915–1916 — Harry C. Knickerbocker, Austin, TX
1914–1915 — Jack C. Shelton, Brownwood, TX
1913–1914 — Thomas F. Keasler, Mineral Wells, TX
1912–1913 — Ernest N. Hogue, Paris, TX
1911–1912 — Virgil V. Parr, Waelder, TX
1910–1911 — Robert E. Baylor, Montell, TX
1909–1910 — Theo G. Huth, San Antonio, TX
1908–1909 — Herbert M. Pool, Clifton, TX
1907–1908 — Arland L. Ward, Houston, TX
1906–1907 — David M. Shearer, Lufkin, TX
1905–1906 — Richard H. Standifer, Greenville, TX
1904–1905 — Walter G. Moore, Paris, TX
1903–1904 — Edward C. Arnold, Graham, TX
1902–1903 — Marion S. Church, McKinney, TX
1901–1902 — James E. Pirie, Parita, TX
1900–1901 — Lawrence W. Wallace, Garfield, TX
1899–1900 — Victor H. Foy, Baird, TX
1898–1899 — Walter T. Garbade, Witting, TX
1897–1898 — William J. Bryan, Houston, TX
1896–1897 — Edwin J. Kyle, Kyle, TX
1895–1896 — Gus Newton Unk
1894–1895 — Charles C. Todd, Jefferson, TX
1893–1894 — C.M. Park, Dallas, TX
1892–1893 — Asa U. Smith, Huntsville, TX
1891–1892 — Frank N. Houston, Holland, TX
1890–1891 — Bert C. Parsons, Kerrville, TX
1889–1890 — Edgar Wright, Paris, TX
1888–1889 — Clifford R. Morrill, Austin, TX
1887–1888 — Sam H. Hopkins, Waelder, TX
1886–1887 — Edward W. Hutchinson, Denton, TX
1885–1886 — Walter H. Allen, Marlin, TX
1884–1885 — John B. Hereford, Dallas, TX
1883–1884 — Frederick E. Giesecke, New Braunfels, TX
1882–1883 — Robert M. Rutherford, Seagoville, TX
1881–1882 — Elijah R. Pennington, Cleburne, TX
1880–1881 — William E. Mosely, Jefferson, TX
1879–1880 — David Rice, Houston, TX
1878–1879 — Silus A. Hare, Sherman, TX
1877–1878 — William H. Brown, Navasota, TX
1876–1877 — Charles Rogan, Giddings, TX