Overview

• Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, the first woman and Hispanic superintendent, will move after 18 months to serve on the Chief of Naval Operations staff with a pending nomination to vice admiral rank.
• President Trump has tapped Marine Lt. Gen. Michael J. Borgschulte to lead the academy, and he would be its first Marine superintendent if confirmed by the Senate.
• Davids’s 18-month tenure departs from the three-to-four-year term customarily served by service academy superintendents, a change enabled by a Defense Department waiver.
• The transition follows a series of policy shifts at Annapolis, including rollbacks of diversity, equity and inclusion programs and changes to admissions and library collections.
• Both Davids’s Pentagon assignment and Borgschulte’s nomination as superintendent await Senate confirmation before the leadership handover can take effect.