Command and Governance

Rear Admiral Gregory C. Rothrock assumed command as the 44th Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, on July 16, 2025. As Superintendent, oversees the mission to train, inspire, and educate future leaders for the service. Most recently, he served as the J7 Director of Force Development at United States Cyber Command, where he oversaw the Joint Force Development mission, ensuring readiness through collective and individual cyberspace training in support of national defense objectives.

Rear Admiral Rothrock previously served as Chief of the Coast Guard’s Office of Budget and Programs. As Budget Director, he led the development and execution of the Service’s budget, managing Program Review, Budget Formulation, and external coordination with the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of Management and Budget, and Congress.

His operational experience includes over nine years in key acquisition leadership roles. He commanded the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center, led the Response Boat Medium Project Resident Office, and served as Executive Officer of the Legacy Sustainment Support Unit. His afloat assignments include service as Engineer Officer aboard USCGC Spencer (WMEC 905), and as Student Engineer, Damage Control Assistant, and Deck Watch Officer aboard USCGC Confidence (WMEC 619).
Rear Admiral Rothrock’s staff include Director of the Commandant’s Action Group; Program Reviewer for the Deputy Commandant for Mission Support; Cadet Character Development Officer at the Coast Guard Academy; Human Resource Manager in the Office of Acquisitions; and Section Chief and Type Desk Manager for the Patrol Boat Type Desk under Maintenance and Logistics Command Pacific.

A 1995 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Rear Admiral Rothrock holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. He also earned a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from Northeastern University.

His personal decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, three awards for the Legion of Merit, two Meritorious Service Medals, and five Coast Guard Commendation Medals. In 2010, he was honored by the American Society of Naval Engineers with the Claud A. Jones Award as Fleet Engineer of the Year.

Rear Admiral Rothrock hails from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is married to the former Lori Stroosnyder of New Milford, New Jersey. They are the proud parents of two children, Egan and Elly.

Captain Jessica Rozzi-Ochs graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy in May of 2000 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering. She earned a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida in June 2006. She also holds a Master of Science in National Security and Resource Strategy from the National Defense University, Dwight D. Eisenhower School and is a graduate of the Defense Acquisition University’s Senior Acquisition Course.

Captain Rozzi-Ochs assumed the duties as Assistant Superintendent in July 2025. Prior to reporting to the Coast Guard Academy, she was the 30^th Commanding Officer of USCGC Barque Eagle, America’s Tallship. Her other afloat assignments include Executive Officer on USCGC Eagle, Engineer Officer on USCGC Valiant, and Student Engineer on USCGC Tahoma.

Her shore assignments include serving as a Program Reviewer in the Office of Budget of Programs at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Resource Division Chief in the Office of Naval Engineering at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, and Port Engineer at Naval Engineering Support Unit in Miami, Florida.

Prior to Eagle, she served as the Deputy Chief of Congressional Affairs in Washington, D.C., where she advanced Coast Guard strategic budget and legislative priorities by advocating and facilitating interactions with Members of Congress, and advising senior leadership on appropriations, authorizations, and political impacts of policy decisions.

Captain Rozzi-Ochs is a Permanent Cutterman with over 10 years of sea time.  She is married to fellow cutterman, CDR Andrew Norberg, and they have two children, Theodore (6) and Luciana (3).

Master Chief Anthony M. Martinez assumed the duties as Command Master Chief for the Coast Guard Academy on 1 June 2026. His primary responsibility is to advise and support the Superintendent on oversight of the mission to train, inspire, and educate the future leaders of the service. Most recently, Master Chief Martinez served as Command Master Chief of Training Center Cape May, NJ, the service’s sole enlisted accession point.

A Brooklyn, NY native, Master Chief Martinez enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1999. His previous assignments include Command Master Chief of Patrol Forces Southwest Asia in Manama, Bahrain, Command Master Chief of Sector Southeastern New England in Woods Hole, MA, Officer In Charge of Coast Guard Cutter SHEARWATER (WPB-87349) in Cape May, NJ, Officer In Charge of Station Eatons Neck in Northport, NY, and a Deployable Specialized Forces position as Tactical Delivery Team Chief at Special Missions Training Detachment East and Maritime Security Response Team East in Chesapeake, VA. His afloat assignments include First Lieutenant and Operations Petty Officer on board Coast Guard Cutter SEA HORSE (WPB-87361) in Portsmouth, VA and Deck and Operations Leading Petty Officer on board Coast Guard Cutter WILLOW (WLB-202) in Newport, RI. His Boat Forces assignments include Training Petty Officer at Station Indian River Inlet in Rehoboth Beach, DE, Station Eastport, ME, and Station Gloucester, MA.

Master Chief Martinez is a proud graduate of Coast Guard Chief Petty Officers Academy Class 205 and the Coast Guard Senior Enlisted Leadership Course Class 62. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business, Management, and Economics with a concentration in Studies in Management from SUNY Empire State University.

Master Chief Martinez’s personal awards include two Meritorious Service Medals, four Coast Guard Commendation Medals, two Coast Guard Achievement Medals, three Commandant’s Letter of Commendation Ribbon Bars, all with Operational Distinguishing Devices, the Command Afloat and Ashore Devices, and the permanent Cutterman, Coxswain, and Advanced Boat Forces Insignias.

Master Chief Martinez is married to the former Lisa Traina of Bayonne, NJ since 2014. They are proud parents of Noel, Selena, Anthony III, and Deziree.

Captain Jonathan R. Harris assumed the duties as Commandant of Cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in August 2026. In this role, he leads a staff of 75 personnel representing all segments of the Coast Guard workforce who deliver the Coast Guard Academy Leadership Development Program for the 1,000-member Cadet Regiment. The Cadet Division oversees the cadet daily routine, the Chase Hall Barracks, cadet military leadership, training, and conduct programs, cadet social and character development programs, the administrative and weapons staffs, and the sailing and seamanship branch along with associated intercollegiate athletic teams.

A Permanent Cutterman, Captain Harris has completed multiple tours of sea duty. His assignments include service as a Deck Watch Officer aboard USCGC Valiant (WMEC-621); Commanding Officer, USCGC Pike (WPB-87365); summer training staff member aboard USCGC Eagle (WIX-327); Executive Officer, USCGC Kukui (WLB-203) and USCGC Hamilton (WMSL-753); and Commanding Officer of USCGC Campbell (WMEC-909). Ashore, Captain Harris has served twice at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Most recently, he was the Assistant Dean of Academics and member of the Rotating Military Faculty in the Mathematics Department. In a prior tour, he served as the Delta Company Officer.

Captain Harris is a 2010 graduate of the Eisenhower Leadership Development Program sponsored by the U.S. Military Academy and The Teachers College, Columbia University. He also served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Yale University. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research and Computer Analysis with High Honors from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, a Master of Arts in Social Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, and a Master of Arts in Statistics from Yale University.

His personal awards include three Meritorious Service Medals, five Coast Guard Commendation Medals, two Coast Guard Achievement Medals, the Commandant’s Letter of Commendation Ribbon, all with the Operational Distinguishing Device, as well as numerous unit and service awards.
Captain Harris is a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is married to Dr. Ginger Denton Harris, a Professor in the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s Government Department. They have two children: a son, Hugh, and a daughter, Leigh.

Dr. Amy Donahue is Provost and Chief Academic Officer at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Dr. Donahue provides primary leadership and direction for all academic activities and faculty affairs at the Academy. She is responsible for ensuring the quality of the Academy’s educational programs and maintaining the standards necessary to accomplish the Academy’s mission to develop leaders of character who serve as officers in the U.S. Coast Guard.

Dr. Donahue is also professor emeritus of public policy at the University of Connecticut (UConn). As a social scientist, her research has focused on executive leadership, homeland security, and disaster preparedness. She was principal investigator on research funded by the Department of Homeland Security as part of the Center of Excellence for the Study of Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management. She is engaged in policy work at the state level, helping design Connecticut’s new policy and curriculum for police use of force, and at the national level, serving on NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, which advises the NASA Administrator and Congress on safety and risk management.

From 2011 to 2018, Dr. Donahue served as UConn’s Vice Provost for Academic Operations and Chief of Staff to the Provost. She was responsible for operational decision-making, policy development, strategic workforce management, labor-management relations, financial resource oversight, crisis planning and response, capital planning, faculty and staff professional development, and compliance management for an academic enterprise of fourteen schools and colleges and five regional campuses. As part of a small team of executive leaders, she was a key partner in developing the $1.7 billion Next Generation Connecticut program, crafting the University’s academic vision, guiding program development to support excellence in teaching and learning, preparing the University for reaccreditation, and building a new regional campus.

Prior to her service in the Provost’s Office, Dr. Donahue headed UConn’s Department of Public Policy for five years, leading a department that included a nationally respected Master of Public Administration program, top ranked in public finance. Previously she advised the Chancellor of Louisiana State University immediately following Hurricane Katrina and was the founding director of LSU’s Stephenson Disaster Management Institute, a research institute focused on the challenges of managing large disaster responses.

From 2002 to 2004, on an Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignment, Dr. Donahue was Senior Advisor to the Administrator for Homeland Security at NASA. She was the agency’s liaison to the Department of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Council and was responsible for identifying opportunities for NASA to contribute to homeland security efforts across government. In 2003, she had a major leadership role in the field response to the crash of space shuttle Columbia. From 2004-2007, Dr. Donahue served on the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, a federal advisory committee that advises NASA on how to improve safety performance. She was recently reappointed to the panel for a six-year term.

As the Distinguished Military Graduate of Princeton’s Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1989, she began her career serving in the U.S. Army on active duty in the 6th Infantry Division at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Her military assignments included serving as Officer in Charge of a Forward Surgical Team, as the Training and Operations Officer (S3) for the 706th Main Support Battalion, and as Chief of Mobilization, Education, Training, and Security for Bassett Army Hospital. She moved on to manage a 911 communications center, and to volunteer and work part-time as a firefighter and medic in Fairbanks, Alaska and upstate New York.

Dr. Donahue holds her Ph.D. in Public Administration and her M.P.A. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Geological and Geophysical Sciences from Princeton University. She was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in 2011. She is certified as a Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician.