Retired Rear Admiral Mary Joan Nielubowicz was the Director of the Navy Nurse Corps from 1983 to 1987.

[2] She served in areas around the globe, including Portsmouth, Virginia, Corona, California, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Annapolis, Maryland, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Iwakuni, Japan, Cherry Point, North Carolina, Guam and Long Beach, California.

[3] Billets of increasing responsibility included that of senior nurse at the branch clinic in Iwakuni, Japan in 1967.

In 1979 she became director of nursing services at the Naval Regional Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia.

[2] She became director of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1983, and was promoted to the rank of Commodore (equivalent to today's Rear Admiral (lower half).