Vice Admiral Joseph D. Stewart, Superintendent of the US Merchant Marine Academy. Joseph D. Stewart (born July 9, 1942) is a retired United States Marine Corps major general, who after his retirement from the Marine Corps, was appointed as Superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) on August 1, 1998.
The ninth person to hold this post since the institution’s dedication in 1943, Vice Admiral Stewart heads a federal academy with a student body of some 920 midshipmen and a waterfront campus covering more than eighty acres. The Academy, operated by the United States Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration, is located at Kings Point, New York. It is one of the nation’s prime sources of licensed merchant marine officers and is renowned for its maritime education and training programs...read more...