Jan Elizabeth Tighe (born September 16, 1962) is a retired United States Navy vice admiral who served as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare and 66th Director of Naval Intelligence from July 15, 2016 to July 2018.

[2] Tighe was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and raised in Plantation, Florida.

In 1984, she graduated from the United States Naval Academy and receive her commission as a cryptologist.

She studied Russian at the Defense Language Institute, graduating in 2001 from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, with a doctorate in electrical engineering and a M.Sc degree in applied mathematics.

[3] Tighe earned her Navy Information Warfare Specialist pin and Naval Aviation Observer wings, while deployed as an airborne special evaluator aboard a VQ-1 EP-3E aircraft in the Gulf War during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.