Thomas Paul "Tom" Meek was a United States Navy officer for 31 years, retiring at the rank of two-star Rear Admiral.

Meek next served as Deputy Commander, Task Group (CTG) 168.0 in Washington, D.C., an overt human intelligence collection organization, from 1988–1990.

Meek was assigned to Sixth Fleet aboard USS Belknap (CG-26) in Gaeta, Italy, from 1990–1992 as assistant staff intelligence officer.

For a six-month period in 1999 during the height of the Kosovo crisis, Meek was dispatched by DIA to serve as Defense Attaché in Tirana, Albania.

In January 2006, Meek was transferred to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for duty as Deputy Chief of Staff and Director for Intelligence, Commander, Pacific Fleet, serving concurrently as J2, Joint Task Force 519.