Marsha J. Evans

Marsha Johnson "Marty" Evans (born 1947) is a retired rear admiral in the United States Navy.

Following her retirement from the Navy, she served as executive director of the Girl Scouts of the USA from 1998 to 2002, and president and CEO of the American Red Cross from 2002 to 2005.

Born in Springfield, Illinois, Evans earned a bachelor's degree in diplomacy and world affairs from Occidental College in 1968.

In 1973, she became the first woman surface assignments officer in the Bureau of Naval Personnel and concurrently served as senior Navy social aide to the President of the United States.

[3] In November 1991, she returned to the Naval Academy as chief of staff, an assignment that was curtailed in August 1992 when she became the executive director of the Standing Committee on Military and Civilian Women in the Department of the Navy.

In this capacity, she chaired a task force that developed a strategy to address gender-based issues in the U.S. Navy in the wake of the Tailhook scandal.

She has also served for seven months as the interim director of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany.

[6] She was appointed to the board of directors of the LPGA by then-Commissioner Carolyn Bivens in early 2009, after serving on the commissioner's advisory council in 2007 and 2008.