Commodore Carolyn Jane Stait, CBE (born 14 April 1957)[1][2] is a retired senior officer of the Royal Navy.
[8] Stait began her naval career in 1975 as a Cadet Wren, working as a weapons analyst at the Culdrose facility in Cornwall.
[9] Stait was promoted commander in 1995,[9] and spent a first two-year period at Faslane as the executive officer of HMS Neptune at HMNB Clyde.
She was promoted captain on 31 December 1998, and appointed Personal Staff Officer to the Second Sea Lord in HMNB Portsmouth.
[9] Later she was appointed Deputy Director of Naval Manning from where she was promoted to commodore on 22 June 2004,[14] before returning to Faslane as base commander.