Joseph B. Marshall, Jr.

Mr. Marshall graduated from Vanderbilt University and received his commission through the Reserve Officer Training Program at that university. He also holds master's degrees in financial management from the Naval Postgraduate School and in national resource strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

Mr. Joseph B. Marshall Jr. was Acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management & Comptroller). In this capacity, he assisted in the oversight of budget formulation and execution of over $165 billion annually for the Navy and United States Marine Corps; for the financial systems, reporting, policy and auditing of the associated financial transactions; and for the cost estimating for the Department of the Navy. Prior to this, he was the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management &Comptroller), where he provided expertise and advice on programs and initiatives with the goal of improving financial management functions for the Department of the Navy. He previously served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management & Comptroller).

Earlier, Mr. Marshall was the Director, Business Support Directorate, Defense Health Agency (DHA), where he had oversight of $40 billion in medical and dental healthcare for more than 9.6 million beneficiaries worldwide. Prior to this position, Mr. Marshall served as the chief financial executive for Navy Medicine and established policy and managed financial and manpower resources for a medical activity totaling more than $6 billion per year in operating costs.

Mr. Marshall entered the Senior Executive Service (SES) in October 2001 and until 2003 he was an Associate Chief Financial Officer at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), where he formulated financial policy and strategic and performance plans for an enterprise which, were it in the private sector, would be the sixth largest company in the world with 100,000 employees,$123 billion in assets, and over$70 billion in annual spending. In 2003 to 2006, Mr. Marshall was the Deputy Director of the Navy Programming Division on the Chief of Naval Operations staff, where he led the building of the Navy's Program Objective Memorandum (POM),totaling over $120 billion per year.

Before entering the SES, Mr. Marshall was the Comptroller of the United States' Transportation Command, a $5 billion Department of Defense activity. During Mr. Marshall's 25-year Navy career which began in 1976, he had command of a destroyer and was recognized as the most outstanding of 16 ships, twice winning the coveted "Battle E." Additionally, he was recognized repeatedly for his exceptional financial and operational expertise.