Bobby Ray Inman

Admiral, U.S. Navy

Bobby Ray Inman was born on 4 April 1931 in Rhonesboro, TX.

Inman graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1950, and from the National War College in 1972.

He served as Director of Naval Intelligence from September 1974 to July 1976, then moved to the Defense Intelligence Agency where he served as Vice Director until 1977. He next became the Director of the National Security Agency. Inman held this post until 1981. On 12 February 1981, he was promoted to the four-star rank of Admiral and assumed his final assignment as the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a post he held until 10 June 1982.

Inman retired as an Admiral in 1982.