DIRECTOR OF FEMA TERMS OF OFFICE
1979-2003
[Where other titles listed means was not Senate Confirmed
as Director and Acting Director only]
April 1, 1979-August 1979--Gordon Vickery, United States Fire Administrator (PAS) Executive Level V
September 1979-January 1981--------John W. Macy, Jr. PAS
Executive Level II
February 1981-March 1981---------------Bud E. Gallagher
Director, Special Facility Berryville, VA (Career SES)
April-1981-----------------------------------------John C. McConnell
Associate Director for Plans and Preparedness (PAS)-Executive Level V
May 1981-August1985--------------------------Louis O. Guiffrida
PAS-Executive Level II
August 1985-October 1985---------------Robert H. Morris
Deputy Director (PAS)-Executive Level IV
November 1985-June 1989----------------Julius W. Becton, Jr.
(PAS)-Executive Level II
July 1989-May 1990---------------------------Robert H. Morris
Deputy Director (PAS)-Executive Level IV
June 1990-August 1990---------------------Jerry D. Jennings
Deputy Director (PAS)-Executive Level IV
September 1990-January 1993----------Wallace E. Stickney
(PAS)-Executive Level II
February 1993-March 1993---------------------William C. Tidball
Chief of Staff (Career SES)
April 1993-January 2001------------------------------James L. Witt
(PAS) Executive Level II
February 2001-March 1, 2003-----------Joseph M. Allbaugh
(PAS)-Executive Level II
[PAS designates Presidentially Appointed Senate Confirmed]
