List of commanders of 2nd Infantry Division (United States)

This is a list of commanders of the US 2nd Infantry Division of the United States Army.

Shoulder sleeve insignia of the US 2nd Infantry Division.

Division Commanders

Name	From	To	Comments
BGen Charles A. Doyen	26 October 1917	November 1917	World War I (United States Marine Corps)
MG Omar Bundy	8 November 1917	July 1918	World War I
MG James G. Harbord	15 July 1918	August 1918	World War I (BGen Wendell C. Neville, USMC, was ad interim from 17–22 July 1919[1])
MajGen John A. Lejeune	August 1918	December 1919	World War I (United States Marine Corps) (28 July 1918) (ad interim 26 July)
COL Harry A. Eaton	December 1919	March 1920
MG James G. Harbord	March 1920	July 1921
MG John L. Hines	July 1921	October 1921
BG Edward Mann Lewis	October 1921	December 1922	Spanish–American War, World War I led 3rd Brigade 2nd Div. Battle of Chateau-Thierry, later the 30th Infantry Division Battle of St. Quentin Canal
BG Dennis E. Nolan	December 1922	June 1923
BG Benjamin A. Poore	June 1923	July 1923
MG Ernest Hinds	July 1923	October 1924
BG Preston Brown	October 1924	April 1925
MG Paul B. Malone	April 1925	June 1926
MG William D. Connor	June 1926	December 1927
BG Thomas Q. Donaldson	December 1927	February 1928
BG Harold B. Fiske	February 1928	March 1928
BG Albert J. Bowley	March 1928	April 1929
BG Samuel D. Rockenbach	April 1929	November 1929
MG Halstead Dorey	December 1933	May 1934
BG Charles R. Howland	May 1934	February 1935
MG Frank C. Bolles	March 1935	July 1935
BG Alexander T. Ovenshine	July 1935	April 1936
MG Charles E. Kilbourne	April 1936	May 1936
BG Alexander T. Ovenshine	May 1936	July 1936
MG Herbert J. Brees	July 1936	October 1936
MG James K. Parsons	October 1936	May 1938
MG Frank W. Rowell	May 1938	March 1939
MG Walter Krueger	March 1939	October 1940
MG James L. Collins	October 1940	March 1941
BG Edmund L. Daley	March 1941	April 1941
BG John N. Greely	April 1941	November 1941
MG John C. H. Lee	6 November 1941	8 May 1942	World War II
MG Walter M. Robertson	9 May 1942	June 1945	World War II
BG William K. Harrison	June 1945	September 1945	World War II
MG Edward M. Almond	September 1945	May/June 1946
MG Paul W. Kendall	May/June 1946	24 May 1948
BG Ira P. Swift	25 May 1948	29 June 1948
MG Harry J. Collins	30 June 1948	April 1950
MG Laurence B. Keiser	April 1950	December 1950
MG Robert B. McClure	December 1950	January 1951
MG Clark L. Ruffner	January 1951	August 1951
BG Thomas E. deShazo	August 1951	September 1951
MG Robert N. Young	September 1951	May 1952
MG James C. Fry	May 1952	May 1953
MG William L. Barriger	May 1953	March 1954
MG John F. R. Seitz	March 1954	August 1954
MG Robert L. Howze Jr.	August 1954	September 1954
MG Thomas S. Timberman	September 1954	August 1955
MG Paul L. Freeman, Jr.	August 1955	August 1956
MG James F. Collins	August 1956	February 1957
BG John F. Ruggles	February 1957	February 1957
MG Gilman C. Mudgett	February 1957	June 1958
BG Miller O. Perry	June 1958	July 1958
MG Robert H. Wienecke	July 1958	February 1960
BG Miller O. Perry	February 1960	February 1960
BG William L. Hardick	February 1960	March 1960
MG Frederick W. Gibb	March 1960	June 1961
BG William L. Hardick	June 1961	July 1961
BG Charles H. White	July 1961	August 1961
BG Royal Reynolds Jr.	August 1961	August 1961
MG Charles H. Chase	August 1961	September 1962
MG Charles Billingslea	September 1962	September 1964
MG John H. Chiles	September 1964	July 1965
MG Hugh M. Exton	July 1965	August 1965
BG Robert R. Williams	August 1965	August 1965
MG John H. Chiles	August 1965	July 1966
MG George B. Pickett Jr.	July 1966	May 1967
MG Frank C. Izenour	May 1967	June 1968
MG Leland G. Cagwin	June 1968	September 1969
MG Salve H. Matheson	September 1969	October 1970
MG Gilbert H. Woodward	October 1970	October 1971
MG Jeffery C. Smith	October 1971	May 1973
MG Henry E. Emerson	May 1973	May 1975
MG J. R. Thurman	May 1975	June 1976
MG Morris J. Brady	June 1976	January 1978
MG David E. Grange, Jr.	January 1978	June 1979
MG Robert C. Kingston	June 1979	June 1981
MG James H. Johnson	June 1981	November 1982
BG Lee D. Brown	November 1982	December 1982
BG Harison H. Williams	December 1982	December 1982
MG James H. Johnson	December 1982	July 1983
MG Henry Doctor	July 1983	August 1985
MG Gary E. Luck	August 1985	December 1986
MG Jack B. Farris	December 1986	June 1988
MG Jack D. Woodall	June 1988	November 1989
MG Caryl G. Marsh	November 1989	June 1991
MG James T. Scott	June 1991	May 1993
MG John N. Abrams	May 1993	March 1995
MG Tommy R. Franks	March 1995	May 1997
MG Michael B. Sherfield	May 1997	September 1998
MG Robert F. Dees	September 1998	September 2000
MG Russel L. Honoré	September 2000	July 2002
MG John R. Wood	July 2002	September 2004
MG George A. Higgins	September 2004	May 2006
MG James A. Coggin	May 2006	November 2007
MG John W. Morgan III	November 2007	October 2009
MG Michael S. Tucker	October 2009	September 2011
MG Edward C. Cardon	September 2011	June 2013
MG Thomas S. Vandal	June 2013	April 2015
MG Theodore D. Martin	April 2015	18 July 2017
MG D. Scott McKean	18 July 2017	17 July 2019
MG Steven W. Gilland	17 July 2019	18 May 2021
MG David A. Lesperance	18 May 2021	15 May 2023
MG William D. Taylor	15 May 2023	21 June 2024
MG Charles T. Lombardo	21 June 2024	present

Division Command Sergeants Major (CSMs)

Name	From	To	Comments
SGM Hughie Stover	July 1965	August 1965	(Reflagged from 1CD in Korea. Term as 2ID SGM starts at reflagging.)
SGM Robert L. Brown	August 1965	May 1966
SGM Othon O. Valent	May 1966	September 1967
SGM John A. Beckham	September 1967	March 1968
CSM G.H. Cottrell	March 1968	February 1969
CSM Robert M. Rowsey	February 1969	February 1970
CSM Tobin	February 1970	December 1970
CSM Jerome J. Szafranski	December 1970	December 1971
CSM Wiliam O. Marshall	December 1971	December 1972
CSM Warren S. Eichelberger	December 1972	May 1974
CSM George H. Hamil	May 1974	December 1974
CSM James P. Meade	December 1974	October 1976
CSM Jose Q. Salas	October 1976	September 1977
CSM Ralph Pritcher	September 1977	December 1978
CSM Robert J. Berry	December 1978	February 1980
CSM Rosvelt Martain	February 1980	July 1980
CSM Willie Pitts Jr.	July 1980	December 1980
CSM Donald L. Melvin	December 1980	October 1981
CSM Simon Ramos	October 1981	June 1982
CSM William J. McBride	June 1982	July 1983
CSM Lee S. Rodriguez	July 1983	November 1984
CSM Bobby C. Boothe	November 1984	October 1986
CSM Billy R. Finney	October 1986	April 1988
CSM Jimmie W. Spencer	April 1988	January 1990
CSM William H. Acebes	January 1990	December 1991
CSM Robert E. Hall	December 1991	November 1993	**(Later became 11th SMA 21 October 1997)
CSM John J. Beck	November 1993	June 1994
CSM John W. Jones	June 1994	January 1996
CSM Charles Jackson	January 1996	June 1997
CSM Charles Fitzpatrick	June 1997	September 2000
CSM Barry Wheeler	September 2000	November 2002
CSM James Lucero	November 2002	August 2005
CSM James A. Benedict	August 2005	October 2006
CSM Brian Stall	October 2006	September 2008
CSM Peter D. Burrowes	November 2008	January 2011
CSM Michael P. Eyer	January 2011	February 2013
CSM Andrew J. Spano	February 2013	October 2015
CSM Edward W. Mitchell	October 2015	1 December 2017
CSM Phil K. Barretto	1 December 2017	July 2020
CSM Shawn F. Carns	July 2020	20 April 2022
CSM Kenneth R. Franco	20 April 2022	Present

References

1. According to World War I division records extracted from http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwi/ob/2-cdr-ob.htm

• Clay, Stephen E. (2010). US Army Order of Battle 1919–1941 (PDF). Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute Press. pp. 207–208. Retrieved 14 August 2024.