Mary Landry
Mary E. Landry is a Rear Admiral in the United States Coast Guard, and as of October 2009 is Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District headquartered at New Orleans, Louisiana.
Landry arrived in the Eighth District having served for the previous two years as the Coast Guard’s Director of Governmental and Public Affairs stationed at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, DC. She has served the majority of her career in the Marine Safety field, and has held various assignments on the East Coast, West Coast, Gulf Coast and Hawaii. She was the Executive Officer of Marine Safety Office (MSO) Boston during the 9/11 attacks and during her tour as Commanding Officer of MSO Providence, Rhode Island, she oversaw the federal response to the Buzzards Bay oil spill in southeastern Massachusetts.
Landry completed Officer Candidate School in 1980. A native of Buffalo, New York, she graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1978 and worked for the city’s mayor prior to joining the Coast Guard. She also has a Master of Arts in Management from Webster University and a Master of Marine Affairs from the University of Rhode Island. Landry is a National Security Fellow, earning this distinction at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2000. She received an Honorary Doctoral Degree from Hilbert College in Hamburg, New York in May 2009.
In 2006, Landry was honored as the Maritime Person of the Year by the Propeller Club of Narragansett Bay.
Landry was the Federal On Scene Coordinator in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. On 23 April, 2010, one day after the Deepwater Horizon sunk, she told CBS "At this time, there is no crude emanating from that wellhead at the ocean surface, er, at the ocean floor...There is not oil emanating from the riser either."[1] [2] She was succeeded as on scene coordinator by Rear Admiral James A. Watson on 1 June and remains Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District at New Orleans. The Coast Guard statement said the strategy had been for someone else to handle the oil slick after Landry continued District Commander duties at the beginning of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. [3]
Her military decorations include the Legion of Merit (three awards), Meritorious Service Medal, Coast Guard Commendation Medal (three awards), 9-11 Medal, and Achievement Medal.
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