Distinguished Graduate Recipients by Class Year
Class of 1931
DGA 2003 - AMB William H. G. FitzGerald
Class of 1933
DGA 1999 - ADM Thomas H. Moorer, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1934
DGA 2004 - LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret.)
Class of 1935
DGA 2003 - RADM Eugene B. Fluckey, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2005 - CAPT Slade D. Cutter, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1937
DGA 2002 - VADM Charles S. Minter, Jr., USN (Ret.)
Class of 1938
DGA 2003 - RADM Robert W. McNitt, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2007 - RADM Maurice H. Rindskopf, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1940
DGA 2000 - Dr. John J. McMullen
Class of 1942
DGA 2001 - CAPT John W. Crawford, Jr., USN (Ret.)
DGA 2003 - VADM William D. Houser, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2004 - VADM Gerald E. Miller, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1943
DGA 2000 - ADM James L. Holloway III, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2004 - VADM James F. Calvert, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1946
DGA 2005 - RADM Robert H. Wertheim, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1947
DGA 2001 - ADM William J. Crowe, Jr., USN (Ret.)
DGA 2001 - VADM James B. Stockdale, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2002 - The Honorable James E. Carter, Jr.
DGA 2006 - CAPT Thomas J. Hudner, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1948
DGA 2007 - ADM Thomas B. Hayward, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1949
DGA 2001 - ADM James D. Watkins, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2017 - ADM Harry D. Train III, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1950
DGA 2004 - LtGen Charles G. Cooper, USMC (Ret.)
DGA 2005 - ADM Ronald J. Hays, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2008 - Mr. James W. Kinnear III, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2009 - Mr. John E. Nolan
DGA 2012 - ADM Sylvester R. Foley Jr., USN (Ret.)
Class of 1951
DGA 2000 - VADM William P. Lawrence, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2006 - ADM Kinnaird R. McKee, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2007 - Mr. Ralph W. Hooper
DGA 2016 - VADM Robert F. Dunn, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1952
DGA 2001 - CAPT James A. Lovell, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2014 - LtGen Thomas P. Stafford, USAF (Ret.)
DGA 2018 - RADM Lawrence C. Chambers, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1953
DGA 2002 - ADM Carlisle A.H. Trost, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2005 - Mr. H. Ross Perot
Class of 1954
DGA 2006 - Gen Robert T. Herres, USAF (Ret.)
Class of 1955
DGA 2000 - MajGen William A. Anders, USAFR (Ret.)
DGA 2010 - Mr. David J. Dunn
Class of 1956
DGA 2008 - ADM Frank B. Kelso II, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2011 - RADM Robert Shumaker, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2017 - Mr. Milledge A. Hart III
DGA 2018 - ADM James R. Hogg, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1957
DGA 2004 - RADM Ronald F. Marryott, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2009 - ADM Bruce DeMars, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2010 - ADM Leon A. Edney, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2011 - Dr. Bradford Parkinson
DGA 2012 - The Honorable Daniel L. Cooper
Class of 1958
DGA 2006 - ADM Charles R. Larson, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2008 - RADM Benjamin F. Montoya, CEC, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2011 - LtGen Matthew T. Cooper, USMC (Ret.)
DGA 2012 - CAPT Bruce McCandless II, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2018 - Senator John S. McCain III
Class of 1959
DGA 2015 - ADM H. Mauz, Jr., USN (Ret.)
DGA 2019 - Dr. J. Phillip London
Class of 1960
DGA 2008 - LtGen William M. Keys, USMC (Ret.)
DGA 2008 - ADM Henry G. Chiles, Jr., USN (Ret.)
Class of 1961
DGA 2020 - VADM Edward M. Straw, SC, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1962
DGA 2002 - Col John W. Ripley, USMC (Ret.)
DGA 2007 - ADM Leighton W. Smith, Jr., USN (Ret.)
DGA 2011 - Mr. Corbin D. McNeill
DGA 2014 - RADM William C. Miller, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1963
DGA 2009 - Mr. J. Ronald Terwilliger
DGA 2013 - Mr. Roger E. Tetrault
Class of 1964
DGA 2009 - ADM Joseph W. Prueher, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2010 - RADM Thomas C. Lynch, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2016 - The Honorable John H. Dalton
Class of 1965
DGA 2000 - Mr. Roger T. Staubach
DGA 2010 - ADM J. Paul Reason, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1966
DGA 2010 - Gen Carlton W. Fulford Jr., USMC (Ret.)
DGA 2013 - The Honorable J. Scott Redd
DGA 2014 - ADM Charles S. Abbot, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1967
DGA 2009 - Gen Peter Pace, USMC (Ret.)
DGA 2012 - VADM John Ryan, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2013 - AMB Richard L. Armitage
DGA 2015 - ADM Richard W. Mies, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2019 - ADM Robert J. Natter, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1968
DGA 2024 - ADM Dennis C. Blair, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2014 - ADM Michael G. Mullen, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2018 - MajGen Charles F. Bolden Jr, USMC (Ret.)
Class of 1969
DGA 2015 - ADM James O. Ellis, Jr., USN (Ret.)
Class of 1970
DGA 2012 - Mr. Daniel F. Akerson
DGA 2013 - ADM Thomas B. Fargo, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2014 - ADM Edmund P. Giambastiani, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2017 - VADM Cutler Dawson, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2018 - Mr. Steven S. Reinemund
DGA 2021 - Mr. Kevin Sharer
DGA 2023 - MajGen Leo V. Williams III ’70, USMCR (Ret.)
Class of 1971
DGA 2022 - Mr. Peter de Vos
DGA 2020 - Col Robert D. Cabana, USMC (Ret.)
DGA 2018 - ADM Timothy J. Keating, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2019 - Col Walter P. Havenstein, USMCR (Ret.)
Class of 1973
DGA 2017 - ADM Eric T. Olson, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2019 - ADM Robert F. Willard, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1974
DGA 2022 - VADM William "Doug" Crowder, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1975
DGA 2020 - ADM Kirkland H. Donald, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2016 - CAPT Carl H. June, MC, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2023 - Mr. Ronald L. Nicol
CLASS of 1976
DGA 2022 - Mr. J. Michael Yeager
DGA 2021 - Gen John Allen, USMC (Ret.)
DGA 2021 - VADM Derwood Curtis, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2023 - ADM James G. Stavridis, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1977
DGA 2024 - ADM Samuel J. Locklear III, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2024 - Mr. Jerrold L. Miller
DGA 2023 - RADM Julius S. Caesar, USNR (Ret.)
Class of 1978
DGA 2024 - Mr. John F. Young
DGA 2023 - ADM Cecil D. Haney, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1979
DGA 2020 - The Honorable Sean J. Stackley
Class of 1980
DGA 2021 - Ms. Janie Mines
Class of 1981
DGA 2022 - VADM Walter “Ted” Carter, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2022 - RADM Margaret “Peg” Klein, USN (Ret.)
DGA 2019 - CAPT Wendy B. Lawrence, USN (Ret.)
Class of 1987
DGA 2015 - Mr. David Robinson
CLASS OF 2006
DGA 2021 - LT Brad Snyder, USN (Ret.)