Senior Serving Engineers

CME Badge

The Senior Serving Engineer is the highest-ranking officer with a military engineering background, is attuned to what is happening at the highest levels of the Department of National Defence, and is responsible for promoting the CME and for determining the impact of major policy decisions on the CME. The Senior Serving Engineer is involved in personnel matters within the CME and in Military Engineering structure issues. The Senior Serving Engineer also provides advice to the Chief of Defence Staff, Assistant Deputy Minister (Human Resources Military) and the chiefs of the three environmental staffs on senior engineer officer appointments. The Senior Serving Engineer sits on the Branch Council and may be called upon to fulfil ceremonial obligations when the CME Colonel Commandant or the CME Branch Advisor is unable to attend official functions.

This list includes CME Senior Serving Engineers since Unification.

Lieutenant-General L.G.C. Lilley, DSO, CD 1966 - 1970
Major-General G.H. Spencer, OBE, CD 1970 - 1972
Major-General N.C. Brown, DFC, CD 1972 - 1974
Major-General R.E. Ashton, CD 1974 - 1978
Major-General N.G. Trower, MBE, CD 1978 - 1979
Major-General N.S. Freeman, CD 1979 - 1982
Major-General J.A. Stewart, CD 1982 - 1985
Major-General D.M. Gray, CD 1985 - 1987
Major-General J.E. Woods, CD 1987 - 1990
Major-General J.L. Adams, CMM, CD 1990 - 1993
Brigadier-General D.W. Edgecombe, CD 1993
Major-General K.G. Penney, OMM, CD 1993 - 2003
Major-General E.S. Fitch, OMM, MSM, CD 2003 - 2006
LGen J.C.M. Gauthier, CMM, CD 2006 - 2009
MGen D. Benjamin, CMM, CD 2009 - 2011
MGen J.M.C. Rousseau, CMM, CD 2011 - 2014
LGen C.T. Whitecross, CMM, MSM, CD 2014 -2020
LGen M.A.J. Carignan, CMM, MSM, CD 2020 -