Rear Admiral Katherine L. Gregory

Rear Admiral Gregory is a native of St. Louis, Mo., and a 1982 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Southern California and George Washington University and has completed the Senior Executive Program at the London School of Business.

Within the Naval Construction Force (Seabees), Gregory has served with Amphibious Construction Battalion One, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) One, as the commanding officer of NMCB 133, commander of the 30th Naval Construction Regiment, and as the chief of staff for the First Naval Construction Division. Throughout her Seabee tours, she deployed to the Western Pacific, Mediterranean, Iraq, and Haiti.

Gregory’s facilities and project management assignments include tours in Yokosuka, Japan; Naples, Italy; San Francisco, Calif.; Adak, Alaska; and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She has also had staff tours in Washington, D.C., serving as the Seabee action officer and CNO Overseas Bases planning and action officer.

Gregory assumed command as commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific and the Pacific Fleet Civil Engineer in July, 2010. She is a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a qualified military parachutist, and Seabee combat warfare officer.